" Hi from Las Vegas Mike,

(Mike) does this mean any impacts on the mac products?

No.

(Mike) or simply getting another company to build the boards?

Yes.

(Mike) Just wondering how this affects current and future mac products. (esp. current models)

Allow me to explain.

Our business strategy is changing. As I stated to Chris this morning, we are reinventing ourselves. We are shifting from a AIB manufacturer to a fabless chip and AIB model. In addition to ASIC sales, we will be outsourcing our board manufacturing retaining the Voodoo brand in the retail channel. The purpose is to lower costs and improve flexibility. We are implementing strict fiscal controls that will increase our profits and grow our bottom line.

Hope that helps,
lg"

How does this affect the Mac retail cards? It may be some time before this change is made, but I've asked my contacts at 3dfx if they can comment on how this will affect current and future Mac graphics cards. (See the later update with Lisa Grubb's comments.)
[Note - 3dfx went out of business in 2001, selling assets to Nvidia.]

Also added to the OpenGL page is a list of the changes from OpenGL versions 1.1.3 to 1.2. (1.2.1 is not listed however).

"Let me be the first to advise your readers, Netscape 6 is less than it is cracked up to be. It is NOT faster, it does NOT render pages better, and I don't recommend it.

It is smaller. It is a clone of IE 5. It is messy and confusing.
I am running it on a G3/500 upgraded 9500 w/256 Mb of overall RAM under OS 9.04.

Let me reiterate. It is messy. The interface looks like somebody tried to steal a computer console from a B-science fiction movie.

What ever happened to simple and clean, utility and efficiency?
-- John W. Grubb"

What's your opinion of Netscape v6?

" Mike,
I was at SuperComputing2000 conference last week in Dallas. I was able to interact quite a bit with the new display.
When I first walked up to it, I thought it was a large, backlit display of "proofs" of some photos. Boy, was I surprised...

After talking to the IBM rep about it here are some facts:

1) There is only one in existence and that was it.

2) That one was actually on loan from Lawrence Livermore Labs for the conference.

3) The expected price will be around $20K, in about a year.

4) It was built in Japan at the same facility that builds their other displays.

5) They were using two Matrox Dual-monitor display cards to drive it.

6) With the display, they also had a realtively high-powered magnifying glass that was needed to even see the individual pixels.

7) It had four fans in the bottom helping cool the internals. (They were so quiet that I did not realize they were there until I looked and felt the airflow. The unit was hardly even warm.)

8) It requires a custom graphics driver (naturally).

Simply unbelievable resolution and color. I could not find even one dead pixel after scanning it for several minutes. Hats off to IBM.
(name withheld by request)"

More info on the display is at this yahoo press release.

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