Narishma

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511.
by Narishma 2y ago
See my reply to the other post.
512.
by Narishma 2y ago
So basically the Steam Machines or the 3DO concepts. We know they don't work for the manufacturers because they can't be priced competitively against regular consoles that can subsidize hardware with game sales.
513.
by Narishma 2y ago
What would they get out of it?
514.
by Narishma 2y ago
> Now a days they feel overpriced and underpowered They've been underpowered since day 1. That hasn't stopped them being successful.
515.
by Narishma 2y ago
There was a Y windowing system. http://www.y-windows.org/
516.
by Narishma 2y ago
Yes, I don't know why they changed the title to make it confusing.
517.
by Narishma 2y ago
> But is it a problem that Microsoft is making and selling fewer of a certain kind of hardware unit? The problem for them is that PC players buy their games on Steam, not the Windows store, which means they miss on the 30% cut they would
518.
by Narishma 2y ago
I don't think that's relevant to that many people.
519.
by Narishma 2y ago
I think this is the opposite. It's avoiding premature abstraction/generalization.
520.
by Narishma 2y ago
More importantly, it allowed you to use some hardware that wasn't supported on Linux. I had a sound card that needed a DOS driver to provide Sound Blaster compatibility and this was the only way to use it from Linux.
521.
by Narishma 2y ago
IIRC the first couple of versions of the Unreal Engine editor were written in VB.
522.
by Narishma 2y ago
Does that include the start menu search or cortana or whatever it's called these days?
523.
by Narishma 2y ago
pulseaudio is already in the process of being replaced by pipewire.
524.
by Narishma 2y ago
They are frequently used in games to run scripting languages.
525.
by Narishma 2y ago
You don't need overlapping windows for a browser.
526.
by Narishma 2y ago
They only started sucking in the last decade or so when they stopped making them in the inverted T shape.
527.
by Narishma 2y ago
You don't have to buy anything to read the notebook though.
528.
by Narishma 3y ago
I'm guessing because it had an editorialized title. It has been changed since.
529.
by Narishma 3y ago
It's neither, more like Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder.
530.
by Narishma 3y ago
Agree to disagree. I'll stop here because we're just wasting time running in circles.
531.
by Narishma 3y ago
There was also an MS-DOS 2.11.
532.
by Narishma 3y ago
The name is what I'm contesting. It's called Tiny-GPU but there's no mention of graphics functionality anywhere in the project.
533.
by Narishma 3y ago
But this particular one isn't designed for graphics work either, so it shouldn't be called GPU.
534.
by Narishma 3y ago
> Like someone else mentioned, laptops often have discrete graphics cards that are not wired to display hardware at all, needing to shuffle framebuffers through the onboard graphics when something needs to make its way to a screen. Those
535.
by Narishma 3y ago
But it doesn't do graphics, so it shouldn't be called GPU. That's the whole point of this thread.
536.
by Narishma 3y ago
> If it processes graphics, I think it counts, even if it has no output. That's not a good definition, since a CPU or a DSP would count as a GPU. Both have been used for such purpose in the past. > There's still use for GPUs
537.
by Narishma 3y ago
CPUs are also pretty parallel. They have multiple cores, each of which can execute multiple instructions working on multiple data items all in a single clock cycle.
538.
by Narishma 3y ago
But how is that different from a CPU?
539.
by Narishma 3y ago
> what's wrong with also supporting the arrow keys? I mean, all PCs had those, right? No, the arrow keys were introduced with the Model M keyboard in 1985. Before that only the numpad arrows were available and they were a bit awkwar
540.
by Narishma 3y ago
Yet another "GPU" providing no graphics functionality. IMO theses should be called something else.

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