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I'm taking bids... feel free to PM me one!

Correct. Just a collectors item.

I don't remember.. good question though.

Well I just found a second chip... it had been missing for years. Any interest out there?

7 hours to go!

Dave, I have to assume I'm not clearly articulating what I am trying to say. I'm not speaking of "plans" at any given time, I'm referring to the situation when V5 5500 was already on the market, when I was personally at 3dfx. Not prior to that. In other words, it was not a project that was...

Dave, As I noted, "there were early workings," but my point was simply that we did not have any plans of coming out with a V5 after the fact that added T&L. V5 5500 was as good as V5 was going to get. The 6000 was canned and Rampage was next, followed by a new architecture.

There were no plans to release a V5 with T&L. There were early workings, obviously, with a secondary T&L chip but 3dfx was so mismanaged that nobody was able to focus a single project until the end, resulting in the significant delay in Rampage (the first processor that would have had it) and...

mboeller, Years ago I wrote a paper for Bitboys that covered the use of EDRAM and Matrix AA. That was actually what led to my hiring post-3dfx. Unfortunately that paper was never released in full. They wanted to scaled back so as not to release as many technical details and so I revised it...

Pressure, The purpose of the acquisition was to do with the mobile designs that had taken place, which were EXTREMELY effective. It was really amazing what we were doing with how many transistors it was being done. They did pickup stuff from the next-gen design on the desktop end too, but...

Tahir2, They were definitely top notch. They were very intelligent and knew what they were doing, but beyond that they were just great to work with and hang out with.

Gunhead, I really didn't know much of anything about Thor because by the time I arrived that had come and gone. I did ask though and because it has been so long it seems a bit hard for others to remember the details as well! A hardware model was never written, only simulation scenarios...

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I wrote one a long time ago on FiringSquad about Bitboys history and what had taken place up to that point. I'm not sure if it is still there anymore, but you should at least be able to find it in an archive on google or something.

Ha, no. Keep in mind it is just the GPU itself, not a whole board. They didn't give me one of those. ;)