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I replaced a creator3d card recently in an ultra 1, and was taking a
closer look at it and noticed a bunch of names running along the top
edge of the card:

BrianS JoeN MIKE L ChrisO AlexK CharlseS ... (etc, etc)

I would assume these people had something to do with the development
of the card. Ok, that's pretty cool, however next to the last name is
"DonT SiN". (HAHAHA)

I would assume the developers had a sense of humor, as well as two
collegues with the initials "Don T." and "Si N." -- either that or
perhaps I simply have a video board developed with Divine
Intervention.

Can anyone elaborate on this? It begs the question, and my curiosity
is piqued.

Thanks,
bl8n8r

bad_knee wrote:

> Can anyone elaborate on this? It begs the question, and my curiosity
> is piqued.
>
> Thanks,
> bl8n8r

As is ours at how to pronounce (if possible) "bl8n8r" ;-)

> I replaced a creator3d card recently in an ultra 1, and was taking a
> closer look at it and noticed a bunch of names running along the top
> edge of the card:

I had a #9 GXE Level 14 VLB card in a 486DX2-66 many years ago. It had
Elvis Lives, God Bless Lennon, and a few other things on it as I recall.
All of these were several layers down, too.

> I would assume these people had something to do with the development
> of the card. Ok, that's pretty cool, however next to the last name is
> "DonT SiN". (HAHAHA)
>
> I would assume the developers had a sense of humor, as well as two
> collegues with the initials "Don T." and "Si N." -- either that or
> perhaps I simply have a video board developed with Divine
> Intervention.
>
> Can anyone elaborate on this? It begs the question, and my curiosity
> is piqued.

I just checked the Creator card in my Ultra1, and some of the names
(including the DonT SiN) have big Xs through them...

bl8n8r@yahoo.com (bad_knee) writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware:
|I replaced a creator3d card recently in an ultra 1, and was taking a
|closer look at it and noticed a bunch of names running along the top
|edge of the card:
|
|BrianS JoeN MIKE L ChrisO AlexK CharlseS ... (etc, etc)
|
|I would assume these people had something to do with the development
|of the card. Ok, that's pretty cool, however next to the last name is
|"DonT SiN". (HAHAHA)
|
|I would assume the developers had a sense of humor, as well as two
|collegues with the initials "Don T." and "Si N." -- either that or
|perhaps I simply have a video board developed with Divine
|Intervention.

I've got a later rev sitting here - the Creator 3D Series 2 (501-41720
and it also lists DonT & SiN, but in a different order so their names
aren't near each other (and capitalized differently - "Dont" and "Sin" -
but the capitalization of names seems to be much more random - some
names are all caps, some have caps at the end but not the beginning,
etc.). The big chip in the middle is labeled "FFB2-LEGEND CONTINUES" so
there seems to be some pride/humor involved still.

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> I replaced a creator3d card recently in an ultra 1, and was taking a
> closer look at it and noticed a bunch of names running along the top
> edge of the card:

Also, SGI has been doing this for years and years.

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:59:56 -0500 Tom Zych <tzych@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Can anyone elaborate on this? It begs the question, and my curiosity
>> is piqued.

It doesn't beg the question. Begging the question is stating as fact
that which you are arguing, not "raising" a question.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/begs.html is the first hit on
Google for [begs the question].

Sorry I have nothing substantial to add, I just hate mis-use of that
term.

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 14:09:15 -0800 "Jason Wagner" <jmw@panix.com> wrote:
>> I replaced a creator3d card recently in an ultra 1, and was taking a
>> closer look at it and noticed a bunch of names running along the top
>> edge of the card:
>
> Also, SGI has been doing this for years and years.

As have many companies, some even at the microscopic level. There's a
web page out there with microphotographs of this stuff, it's pretty
cool if you can find it.

/fc

Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> writes:

> Sorry I have nothing substantial to add, I just hate mis-use of that
> term.

If you're going to be like that, misuse is not hyphenated :-P
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real rule revisions that are irreversible"

- anonymous correspondent

Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes:

> I've got a later rev sitting here - the Creator 3D Series 2 (501-41720
> and it also lists DonT & SiN, but in a different order so their names
> aren't near each other (and capitalized differently - "Dont" and "Sin" -
> but the capitalization of names seems to be much more random - some
> names are all caps, some have caps at the end but not the beginning,
> etc.). The big chip in the middle is labeled "FFB2-LEGEND CONTINUES" so
> there seems to be some pride/humor involved still.

I hate to be a jerk about it, but I heard that XVR-1000 is the very
last Sun graphics chipset ever, so I wonder if someone can report what
that says, something like "ok, ATI, Nvidia etc, we give in, you win,
fsckers"

Chris
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Chris Morgan wrote:

> I hate to be a jerk about it, but I heard that XVR-1000 is the very
> last Sun graphics chipset ever, so I wonder if someone can report what
> that says, something like "ok, ATI, Nvidia etc, we give in, you win,
> fsckers"

Maybe not on the board, but perhaps in the OBP. I remember the OS ROM
in the BBC Micro having memory that was hidden by the memory mapped I/O
(Fred, Jim, and Sheila for us old Beeb hands). That had an easter egg
in it, thanking everyone involved with the project. Here's a hex dump
of the relevent bit:

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