[Info-vax] VSI Software and Stark Gaming

[Scott Dorsey]

JF Mezei  <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>On 15-08-11 10:12, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>
>> Hollywood.  For many years, Hollywood was the main driver pushing high
>> end video systems and they were SGI's major customer.  In the eighties and
>> early nineties, CGI shops dominated the customer base.
>
>Did CAD software also drive video card development ? Or did CAD just
>ride on the wave created by Hollywood which enables near real-time
>rendering of structures being designed ?

CAD was a big market, and it was a market with a lot of money, but it was
a market that didn't need fancy texture mapping and many of the features
that made big changes in that hardware in the eighties and nineties.
--scott
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