Does that make you the first in a long tradition of GPU developers going to blockbuster app devs to say "hey, you should be doing this instead?"
PS – I am looking through the NuBus cards that I have... did you work for SuperMac or RasterOps?
Does that make you the first in a long tradition of GPU developers going to blockbuster app devs to say "hey, you should be doing this instead?"
PS – I am looking through the NuBus cards that I have... did you work for SuperMac or RasterOps?
I was probably not the first to have to do that, we knew what apps our customers used, making them better was the whole point of the operation
I did the architectural design for the SuperMac cards. I figured out what needed to be accelerated, dropping code into people's machines to see where the cycles were going. Others did the physical design for the first 2 cards, I did the design of the chip in the Thunder and later cards (designed the data paths and state machines and a full simulation, someone else actually laid the gates)
If your card has a SQD01 on it it's my work. It peaks at 1.5Gb/s on solid fills