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I remember in the interview mentioning they should also license Weitek's VGA core, but they said VGA was dying and they didn't want to dedicate silicon area to
by stery966 2y ago
I remember in the interview mentioning they should also license Weitek's VGA core, but they said VGA was dying and they didn't want to dedicate silicon area to it. Besides they had an external chip to do it "for now" - i.e until it died. They were also very contemptuous of nVidia and completely convinced of their own superiority
- grishka 2y ago> VGA was dying Funny to read that in 2025 when all new PC GPUs still provide some form of VGA backwards compatibility with no plans to remove it.
- xattt 2y agoIt’s crazy to think that extant x86 hardware, with a little finagling, can run software from 40-45 years ago.
- grishka 2y agoEven crazier is that someone made an adapter that converts the TPM header found on some modern motherboards into an ISA slot because apparently that has all the necessary bus lines exposed. So that, you know, you could plug a sound blaster in there to play your DOS games with sound. Edit: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=93291 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=93291