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Realtime 3D graphics were pioneered there, sure, but the laurels for "GPU on a chip" which sparked the 3D revolution firmly rest with nVidia and ATI.


You mean “3dfx”. Ironically, the original accelerators of both companies you've named were not a success in any way, and hardly contributed to the 3D revolution.


And the only reason GL won over Glide was a certain game and its miniGL implementation.





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