Re: Some perspective from the cheap seats...

Allen Akin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:55:30PM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
| I'll bet you a dinner it is at least two generations before we have both
| FPU's and any significant 3d rendering assist in these devices.
| 
| Understand, this is a bet I'd be very happy to lose :-).

I'll take a bet, if you'll accept a modification. :-)

Going by what I heard at the last ARB meeting, we're likely to have 3D
assist before we have FPUs in the host processor.  In the near term
generating FP data is likely to be less important than rendering it.
Particularly for multiplayer and wireless.

Allen
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