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The Dawn of Nvidia's Technology
Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the geniu...
But as regards the technical aspects of this early history it appears that neither author really understood the reasons for the two kinds of innovation we made; the imaging model and the I/O architecture. The reason was that NV1 used quadric patches and thus made better use of the limited PCI bus bandwidth.At Sun, James Gosling and I built the extremely sophisticated and forward-looking but proprietary NeWS window system. Our work on this problem at Sun led to a patent filed in 1989, US5127098A: Method and apparatus for the context switching of devices with (inventors David S. H. Rosenthal, Robert Rocchetti, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky).
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