This led to the development of AGP, a " bus " dedicated to graphics adapters.

, some graphics cards ( e. g. GeForce 8 and Radeon R600 ) require more power than the motherboard can provide, and thus dedicated connectors have been introduced to attach them directly to the power supply.

Whereas graphics programmers had earlier relied on hand-coded assembly to make their programs run fast, most modern programs are written to interface with one of the existing graphics APIs, which drives a dedicated GPU.

A disadvantage of planar graphics is that more RAM address cycles are needed for scrolling and animations, although these operations can be made faster by dedicated hardware.

** Graphics processing unit or graphics accelerator, a dedicated graphics rendering device

In comparison to the user interfaces of physically buttoned dedicated remote control devices, the user interfaces of these remote control applications are designed to take advantage of the dynamic graphics offered by usually touchscreened handheld devices, making for larger virtual buttons and virtual keyboards.

The Z-Box was a raster graphics machine, unlike the original GRASS systems, so while most of the GRASS3 style was maintained in Zgrass, it added a number of commands dedicated to raster images.

It represents what seems to be the first dedicated graphics workstation.

Most Atari ST ( Mega STE model ), and Atari TT framebuffers were created for the VME rear connector slot of Atari machines dedicated to video expansion cards: Leonardo 24-bit VME graphics adapter, CrazyDots II 24-bit VME graphics card, Spektrum TC graphics card, NOVA ET4000 VME SVGA graphics card ( capable of resolutions up to 1024x768 at 256 colors or 800x600 at 32768 colors ), whose design came from the ISA / PC world ( it was effectively an ATI Mach32 S: with 1 MB of video RAM ).

Please notice with the appearance of journals specifically dedicated to computational geometry, the share of geometric publications in general-purpose computer science and computer graphics journals decreased.

Surface caching contributed greatly to the visual quality of Quake's software rasterized 3d engine on Pentium microprocessors, which lacked dedicated graphics instructions.

Their aim was to produce a desktop multiprocessing supercomputer dedicated to graphics that could support up to four processor units.

In a multi-pipe ( multiple graphics subsystems ) configuration rendering to each graphics pipe would have a dedicated thread and similarly culling would also have a dedicated processor.

Advanced features like database paging, texture paging and point light source management ( for flight simulation ) and intersection testing for collision detection would also have dedicated processors allowing asynchronous i / o and processing to occur without negatively impacting graphics performance.

A running Quantel Paintbox. The Quantel Paintbox was a dedicated computer graphics workstation for composition of broadcast television video and graphics.

Some systems use dedicated hardware to reduce the load on the host CPU, as with Symbolic Sound Corporation's Kyma System, and the Creamware / Sonic Core Pulsar / SCOPE systems, which used several DSP chips hosted on a PCI card to power an entire studio's worth of instruments, effects, and mixers.

The microcode for this model was also held on special punched cards, which were stored inside the machine in a dedicated reader per card, called " CROS " units ( Capacitor Read-Only Storage ).

A number of firms provide hardware-based FPGA cryptographic analysis solutions from a single FPGA PCI Express card up to dedicated FPGA computers.

Unlike the Windows 98 version, the new Windows Me version supports software decoding for playback of DVD movies without a dedicated decoder card.

The distinction is that softsynths run on a general purpose computer with a sound card, and the hardware ( dedicated ) synthesizers have the custom software built-in.

It came with a dedicated IBM-PC-compatible ISA interface card, a ribbon cable, and a control panel.

Many users even preferred Voodoo2's dedicated purpose, because they were free to use the quality 2D card of their choice as a result.

These machines had no audio circuitry on the logic board ; instead, a PERCH slot ( a dedicated 182-pin microchannel connector ; a superset of the PCI spec, but which does not accept PCI cards ) was populated with a " personality card " which provided the audio circuitry.

Originally located on a dedicated expansion card, the game port was later integrated with PC sound cards.

The game port uses a DA-15 connector and was originally usually mounted on a dedicated ISA card.

* Memory: 64K on the motherboard expandable to 128K via a card in a dedicated slot.

In addition to these low-cost dedicated systems, very cheap add-in cards for popular home computers started to appear at this time, for example the Apple II-based Greengate DS3 sampler card.

* Samplecell by Digidesign, a hybrid system that relied on a dedicated card ( originally NuBus, then PCI ), along with software.

* Viewpoint ( card game ), dedicated deck card game

A title card at the end of the season 3 finale of Celebrity Rehab dedicated the episode to him.

Apple offered some systems configured this way, marketed as " DOS Compatible " — a card with dedicated x86 CPU and RAM was used, while the Mac hard drive, sound subsystem, networking and input provided services to the PC.

As computing power increased, this load became minimal, and in some cases dedicated chips in a computer ( such as a sound card ) would actually handle all the decompressing.

More than 90 % of new desktop and notebook computers have integrated GPUs, which are usually far less powerful than those on a dedicated video card.

The phenomenon was parodied in the book The Munchkin's Guide to Powergaming, which in turn spun off the popular Munchkin series of dedicated deck card games.

Using a dedicated terminal or telnet client, users could search a handful of pre-coordinate indexes and browse the resulting display in much the same way they had previously navigated the card catalog.

He went on to say: `` In the first place, industry per se is not dedicated to the role of savior of foundering municipalities.

Eleazar, pausing on the Hanover plain, found its great forests and remoteness good and with his own hands built the first College Hall, a log hut dedicated `` for the education & instruction of Youth of the Indian Tribes in this Land in reading, writing & all parts of learning which shall appear necessary and expedient for civilizing & christianizing Children of Pagans as well as in all liberal Arts and Sciences ; ;

* This Day in Alternate History, dedicated to showing significant events in years past on this day that shaped history ... just, not our history.

His body was placed in Hadrian's mausoleum, a column was dedicated to him on the Campus Martius, and the temple he had built in the Forum in 141 to his deified wife Faustina was rededicated to the deified Faustina and the deified Antoninus.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

His chief work on penance, the Liber poenitenitalis dedicated to Henry de Sully, exercised great influence on the many manuals of penance produced as a result of the Fourth Lateran Council.

* 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D. C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.

The Italian scholar Maggiani recently showed that on an Etruscan tomb dedicated to Racvi Satlnei in Bologna ( 5th century BC ) there is a writing that says: " aivastelmunsl

Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s novel A Canticle for Leibowitz centers on a monastic order called the Albertian Order of Leibowitz, named by its founder after Albertus Magnus and dedicated to preserving scientific knowledge lost after a nuclear war.

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.

In addition, the Ross-Blakley Law Library and the Noble Science Library are housed in dedicated facilities on the Tempe campus.

On September 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated the Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

* 1957 – American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage " baby-boomers " by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.

The work was finished 9 years later and transported via warship, steamship, and finally mule train before being dedicated on Christmas Eve.

Around the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

In Athens, Paul visits an altar with an inscription dedicated to an unknown god, so when he gives his speech on the Areopagos, he proclaims to worship that same unknown god whom he identifies as the Christian God.

There have also been dedicated anti-tank vehicles built on ordinary armored personnel carrier or armored car chassis.

* Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.