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I would say SGI, with the invention of GPU's and OpenGL. It took off from there, not Evans & Sutherland before.
by rurban 3y ago
I would say SGI, with the invention of GPU's and OpenGL. It took off from there, not Evans & Sutherland before.
- angry_octet 3y agoJim Clark did his PhD at Utah. The academic program, and the nearby E&S, provided a great incubator for computer graphics talent. Stanford was where it went to the next level, with the subsequent commercialisation via MIPS and SGI. OpenGL was originally the proprietary IrisGL, and of course SGI never made a GPU, but invented the architecture of fixed function pipelines (Geometry Engines, Texture Memory, Raster Managers). It was people who left SGI to found nVidia.
- dahart 3y agoNo, you’re in the wrong decade. And Jim Clark, who founded SGI, got his PhD and learned computer graphics at Utah and was part of the cohort pictured in the article, his advisor was Ivan Sutherland.