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Been seeing double for a very long time

The idea of using a computer for stereovision representation of molecules dates back to Project MAC at MIT in 1966. And in the early 1980s the concept became known “molecular graphics” and the Molecular Graphics ...

It’s the noun stupid – Video Game Consoles

I couldn’t understand after all these years why the press keeps referring to, and getting excited about “video games,” and yet never mentioned the PC. The first console dates back to the “Brown Box,” Ralph ...

Those ungrateful consumers

Look at all we’ve done for them and have they once said thanks? No, all they want to do is talk about the good old days. The good old what? You mean when we had ...

The Tyranny of Terminology

Source: Willi Heidelbach    One of the running jokes about the difference between the English, French and German languages are how rich and efficient English is and how complicated and wordy French and German can ...

To be S3D you have to see

James Cameron called me the other day and told me (he never asks) I should pay more attention to 3D. I told him I’ve been involved in “3D” longer than he has been making movies, ...

To 3D or not 3D, that’s no longer the question

Visual stereoscopy, also known as S3D, has definitely come to the PC. It was actually always there, just not exposed. Soon there will be video stereo­scopy available on your TV, you can see cinematic stereoscopy ...

Moving toward the edge —it may be uncomfortable there

This week’s issue of Tech Watch looks at the inflection point we are entering with the end of the IGP and the introduction of the IPG—Integrated Processor Graphics. The question is, or at least one ...

Almost every year Intel’s Paul Otellini gets to be proven right

Paul Otellini says no other architecture has ever survived other than the x86. He cites RISC, Transputer, SGI’s geometry processor, array-processors, DSP, and others. Now he can add the Cell to his list. Last month, ...

On seeing more

Peddie’s second law is—The more you can see the more you can do. Looking good, feeling better. And if you’ve looked at my blog, you will see what I’m currently experimenting with to test that ...

A look at the future—maybe

We’ve spent some intense and serious time with the AMD folks recently, in Las Vegas, Texas, Santa Clara, here in our labs, on the phone and by email, and we’ve gotten a pretty good understanding ...

Look at me when I talk to you

About ten years ago, I wrote an editorial suggesting our PCs could, and should, look at and listen to us. And when they did they would be able to see if we were happy, angry, ...

The middle ground—is there one or many?

When Steve Jobs presented the iPad, he set up the premise that we have smart phones, and we have laptops, and there is a gap between them that should be filled. As he made his ...