Unified memory was a key feature of Silicon Graphics's low end O2 workstation released in 1996 (well before that 2004 date.) It enabled both "unlimited" texture

Unified memory was a key feature of Silicon Graphics's low end O2 workstation released in 1996 (well before that 2004 date.) It enabled both "unlimited" texture mapping memory and ability to map video streams as texture maps without extra memory moves or copies. https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/SGI_O2 https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/SGI_O2 When SGI's viability became questionable, I always thought there might be some value in Apple scooping them up for innovative bits of value like that but that never came to pass. Would be interested to know if it was ever considered/rejected and why.