Post #3757432
2026-05-24 20:16 UTC
Nope I was wrong. Sony 1994:
> The term "GPU" was coined by Sony in reference to the 32-bit Sony GPU (designed by Toshiba) in the PlayStation video game console, released in 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_processing_unit?wprov=sfti1#1990s
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@zcutlip@hachyderm.io 2026-05-24 22:10
On snap. I’d totally forgotten the Voodoo cards were add-on cards that couldn’t do 2D. They used a pass through where the voodoo sat inline between your vga card and your monitor. When a game triggered 3D mode via Glide, the Voodoo literally hijacked the wire and sent its own signal to your monitor. Presumably your 2D card was still pumping out Windows desktop or whatever, but that signal was just being discarded. That’s fucking wild. And that doesn’t even get into SLI where two voodoo cards would take turns drawing every other scan line.