[HN Gopher] Professional Graphics Controller Notes (2010)
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       Professional Graphics Controller Notes (2010)
        
       Author : userbinator
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-12-03 09:18 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.seasip.info)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.seasip.info)
        
       | dahart wrote:
       | I found a picture of the assembled board and details about price
       | and release date on the Wikipedia page:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Graphics_Controll...
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       | This thing did 3d (looks like maybe lines only?), and I didn't
       | realize there were 3d graphics cards in 1984. I googled a whole
       | bunch of 3d graphics hardware history before finding an article
       | that mentioned the IBM PGC - this one said the PGC is IBM's first
       | GPU, and noteworthy in the history of GPUs.
       | https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/history-of-computers,45...
        
         | rjsw wrote:
         | The IBM info on that wiki page may be fine but at least one of
         | the cards listed as a clone is not.
        
       | mmastrac wrote:
       | Given that this communicates over ring buffers on the ISA bus, it
       | has a lot more in common with modern graphics cards than it did
       | with most CGA, EGA, or VGA adapters that were registers + direct
       | framebuffer.
        
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