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The slides could have mentioned the TMS34010 [1] as well as the SGI RealityEngine. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS
by rjsw 5y ago
The slides could have mentioned the TMS34010 [1] as well as the SGI RealityEngine.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010
- gmueckl 5y agoNo, I don't think so. The TMS34010 is nothing like the 3D accelerators that these slides are about. The TI chip is a 2D graphics accelerator at heart, like a lot of the graphics hardware of the 80s. The SGI RealityEngine is noteworthy because it is an early hardware implementation of a 3D rasterization pipeline. The individual hardware boards of that system correspond almost exactly to the conceptual boxes you see in an introduction to the 3D rasterization pipeline.
- p_l 5y agoConsidering that libGL, and thus OpenGL, grew out of the SGI RealityEngine pipeline, that's not surprising at all