31 Aug
2011
31 Aug
'11
11:02 a.m.
To sum up, the KGI folks mostly had the right ideas more than a decade earlier -- but they totally failed to present them in a viable form :-(
Bit more complex IMHO
In the KGI era graphics cards didn't really use main memory much, didn't have long DMA engine command queues and that made a lot of the kernel/user transitions very expensive.