Monday, February 6, 2012

History

The AGP aperture aboriginal appeared on x86 accordant arrangement boards based on Socket 7 Intel P5 Pentium and Aperture 1 P6 Pentium II processors. Intel alien AGP abutment with the i440LX Aperture 1 chipset on the August 26, 1997, and a flood of articles followed from all the above arrangement lath vendors.3

The aboriginal Socket 7 chipsets to abutment AGP were the VIA Apollo VP3, SiS 5591/5592, and the ALI Aladdin V. Intel never appear an AGP-equipped Socket 7 chipset. FIC approved the aboriginal Socket 7 AGP arrangement lath in November 1997 as the FIC PA-2012 based on the VIA Apollo VP3 chipset, followed actual bound by the EPoX P55-VP3 aswell based on the VIA VP3 chipset which was aboriginal to market.4

Early video chipsets featuring AGP abutment included the Rendition Vérité V2200, 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Nvidia RIVA 128, 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2, Intel i740, ATI Rage series, Matrox Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX/2. Some aboriginal AGP boards acclimated cartoon processors congenital about PCI and were artlessly bridged to AGP. This resulted in the cards benefiting little from the new bus, with the alone advance acclimated getting the 66 MHz bus clock, with its consistent angled bandwidth over PCI, and bus exclusivity. Examples of such cards were the Voodoo Banshee, Vérité V2200, Millennium II, and S3 ViRGE GX/2. Intel's i740 was absolutely advised to accomplishment the new AGP affection set. In actuality it was advised to arrangement alone from AGP memory, authoritative PCI versions of the lath difficult to apparatus (local lath RAM had to challenge AGP memory.)

Microsoft aboriginal alien AGP abutment into Windows 95 OEM Account Release 2 (OSR2 adaptation 1111 or 950B) via the USB SUPPLEMENT to OSR2 patch.5 After applying the application the Windows 95 arrangement became Windows 95 adaptation 4.00.950 B. The aboriginal Windows NT-based operating arrangement to accept AGP abutment was Windows NT 4.0 with account backpack 3, alien in 1997. Linux abutment for AGP added fast abstracts transfers was aboriginal added in 1999 with the accomplishing of the AGPgart atom module.

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