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23:0123:01, 26 December 2025 SBus to VL Converter (hist | edit) [1,380 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''SBus to VL Converter''' may have been Nvidia's first product released for sale, available by August 1995. It allowed the insertion of Sun Microsystems workstation SBus units into VESA Local Bus (a bus common on 486 and early Pentium PC motherboard machines. It was listed in a "Catalyst Catalog" in August 1995. It was likely designed for internal development work on the NV1 (since many early Nvidia employees were ex-Sun Microsystems employees) and may have been...")

14:0714:07, 25 December 2025 NV1 RMC (hist | edit) [3,373 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Like all VGA compatible video controllers, the Nvidia NV1 has a Video BIOS. However, for legacy compatibility reasons the video BIOS has to run code in 16-bit real mode and is not aware of the bus (either VLB or PCI) that it is sittig on. By default, without special dispensations, the graphics card will not be able to write to the MMIO of the GPU, which is mapped as PCI BAR0. In NV3 this system was replaced by the much simpler [[NV3 RMA|Real-mode Access] subsystem....")

01:0301:03, 16 December 2025 NVPlay (hist | edit) [1,361 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''NVPlay''' is a tool designed to allow raw-level communication with graphics hardware, focusing on early Nvidia GPUs from the mid to late 1990s.") originally created as "NVPlay Documentation"

21:2021:20, 16 November 2025 MG20 (hist | edit) [616 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''MG20''' is an unknown Nvidia GPU and SoC that was intended to be used circa 2006 on the Nintendo 3DS (codenamed "Centrair") before Nintendo decided to change the system's GPU to a Digital Media Professionals "PICA200"-based fixed function GPU (at some point between 2007 and 2009). It may be related to the "GoForce" line of chips, but these are not Nvidia designs, instead being created by a company Nvidia acquired called MediaQ and anyway are simply graphics chips rath...")

00:1000:10, 23 October 2025 NV1 object classes (hist | edit) [1,847 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is the list of '''object classes''' that can be submitted via PFIFO on NV1. '''Note:''' This is the internal class interface. The Resource Manager provides a different class interface before NV4. These are the class IDs required to actually submit objects to the GPU hardware - the IDs must be shifted right by 12 bits to be submitted (in effect, they show up as <code>0x40-0x5F</code> while viewing RAMHT in a hex editor, like on NV3) Object...")

17:0417:04, 6 October 2025 Timeline (hist | edit) [24,104 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This is a timeline of the early history of Nvidia. == 1950s and earlier == * 1948: David S. H. Rosenthal (one of the NV1 designers) is born. * March 6, 1950: John Nickolls is born. * 1958 or 1959: Curtis Priem is born. For some reason, his exact birth year is not known. * May 2, 1959: Chris Malachowsky is born. * 1959: The revolutionary Sketchpad program is created on the MIT TX-2 computer by a team led by Ivan Sutherland (later of Evans and Sutherland). It allowed...")
16:1016:10, 6 October 2025 STG-3001 (hist | edit) [1,182 bytes] Starfrost (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The '''STG-3001''' was a cancelled graphics chip under development by SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics)'s Graphics Business Unit in 1996. It was cancelled around June 1996 in favour of continuing the Strategic Collaboration Agreement with NVIDIA to develop the NV3 (which ST called the STG-3000). Presumably, considering Nvidia's dire financial straits at the time of the STG-3001 project, it was considered as a backup option in case of the bankruptc...")

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