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>It's still peak in my brain :) that's neat that someone else does that. i'm like that with the voodoo2, for some unknown reason. don't get me wrong, the voo

• agumonkey 6y ago
  Actually I exaggerated a bit, Matrox was peak 2D era. And yeah 3dfx voodoo 2 still had a massive glow in my brain. It represented so much magic and power in its day. It started the 3d ~high quality FPS... (riva128 and geforce3 followed). Same goes for some symbols like 386 dx2. Our young brain were imprinted hard.
• glhaynes 6y ago
  I was watching a guy on YouTube the other day talking about a computer he was building. He made reference to how he was keeping some component simple (the memory interface, I believe), which would compromise performance, but he wasn't worried about it because the 68000 he was using in it was so fast. My first thought was "yeah, that makes sense" but my second was "what could it possibly mean when we talk about a 68000 being 'fast' in 2021?!" It really made me think about how an attribute like "fastness" can get endowed and then still stick 40 years later, almost as though it were describing some spiritual attribute that transcends the fact that a modern $0.25 microcontroller is many times more performant.