[ Thanks to Flavio
Villanustre for this link. ]
“Graphics hardware has grown from a simple display controller to
a full fledged specialized processing unit, in the last 10 years.
The amount of included memory has increased from a mere few
Kilobytes to hundreds of Megabytes. But what other uses can be
found for your videocard when you’re not playing a game or using
the latest CAD package?“Ever since 3dfx (now NVIDIA) turned specialized 3D hardware
accelerated videocards into commodity parts, PCs have never been
the same…”