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Back then, I came up with a way to connect two graphics chips onto a single AGP slot without a bridge chip or glue logic. Since AGP is a superset of PCI, both gfx chips will get recognized and enumerated. Then you just have the driver only ever use AGP bus mastering on one chip and PCI bus mastering on the other chip. It is not symmetric in terms of transfer speeds and a bit janky, but it does work.

Can you guess which product used this implementation?

See:

Weekly Science news by Sabine Hossenfelder

Today we’ll talk about the new superconductor claim, bad news for new physics, a quantum radar, how to print origami, space-based solar power for a moon station, a dire prediction for the collapse of an ocean circulation, Europe’s first hyperloop test, why NASA shoots lasers at the rain forest, and of course, the telephone will ring.

https://youtu.be/RjzL9cS3VW8

When was that? 40? 50 yrs ago?

Did you really mean engineer or did you mean entry level technician?

When I graduated high school in the late 80's, you would at least need a community college degree to become even a technician or technologist.

There is a similar in purpose Punjabi food called pinni made from flour, sugar, ghee and nuts. They also provide a lot of energy and last a long time.

I have thought of those as lembas.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg atta (wheat flour)

• 500 gm chinni (white granulated sugar)

• 500 gm ghee (clarified butter) or olive oil

• 250 gm khoya (congealed sweet cream)

• Mewa (to taste): badam (almonds), piste (pistachios), kishmish (raisins)

http://www.indoamerican-news.com/mamas-punjabi-recipes-atte-...

Ken, you have done an amazing job with this writeup. Very clear and understandable.

I recommend this article for anyone wants to understand how Integrated Circuits operate and are built.

BTW, I worked as the Cost Engineer for the IBM Token Ring cards and also the RS/6000 Memory upgrade boards as an intern in the early 90's.

On twitter, Taylor Lorenz accused Marc Andreessen of using the "R-slur" in a Clubhouse discussion. In fact, some one else said the word in the context of some /r/wallstreetbets folks calling themselves "retards" in a self deprecating manner.

Taylor Lorenz's issue is that she is blocked by Marc Andreessen and several others on Clubhouse. So she is blocked from entering many key rooms (i.e. the one where Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg were on)