On 15 Jul 2005 at 1:46, Darcy James Argue wrote:

> On 15 Jul 2005, at 1:35 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> > On 15 Jul 2005 at 1:17, Darcy James Argue wrote:
> >
> >> Any ATI or nVidia graphics card with 32MB or more supports OpenGL
> >> (and, on Windows, Direct3D -- the Windows version of Sib may use
> >> Direct3D, I don't know).
> >
> > Is nVidia the chipset that ATI uses?
> 
> No.  nVidia and ATI are rivals.
> 
> > Mine is ATI and I know it's an
> > nVidia chipset.
> 
> I'm afraid you must be mistaken.  (That would be like saying "Mine is
> an Intel and I know it's an Athlon chipset.")

Well, somewhere along the line, I had an nVidia chipset.

Perhaps it was my old PC.

Geez, why do I clutter up my brain by remembering useless information 
like that?

> > Maybe I'm just misremembering when 16- and 32MB video cards became
> > normal.
> 
> If I recall correctly, somewhere around 1999-2000.

Well, this machine was shipped from Dell 4/14/1999, and was bought on 
the high end of the product line (it was one of the first Pentium 4 
machines available). I know 8MBs wasn't an unusual amount of RAM, 
because my previous PC, purchased in 1996 had that much (though I had 
spent an extra $60 to upgrade it).

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