I feel like the Nvidia chips from NV1-NV3 were doing a take on this idea IIRC. My memory is foggy and would really love to see the documentation again. Possibly

I feel like the Nvidia chips from NV1-NV3 were doing a take on this idea IIRC. My memory is foggy and would really love to see the documentation again. Possibly it survived on beyond the original chips? I'm not entirely sure if it was just the driver API or the actual hardware that supported objects but definitely they were trying to abstract it that way. I found this through googling "redesigned PGRAPH objects, introducing the concept of object class in hardware" https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/envytools/latest/envytools.pdf https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/envytools/latest/envytools... And. https://envytools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hw/graph/intro.html https://envytools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hw/graph/intro.ht...