Apple posted and quickly pulled an NVIDIA flasher utilty last week. I’ve read the reason it was pulled was because the original flasher posted by Apple enabled NVIDIA PC cards to work in Apple computers. On Macintouch, John Neil – Director of Mac Software at Nvidia clears this up (my emphasis):
[…] NVIDIA sells chips, not cards. It doesn’t matter to what video card is used as long as it has one of our GPUs on it. The requirement that PC boards not work with Mac FCode comes from Apple.
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Published at 1:47 am on March 12th, 2004.
Topics: Mac
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Macintouch mentions John Neil was the creator of the SoftwareFPU. When I was a student sometime back in the early 1990s I bought my first Mac (a brand spanking new Macintosh LC – the LC didn’t come with an integrated floating point unit; LC was short for “Low Cost” so it wasn’t included). I’ve forgotton how useful SoftwareFPU was to me, it let me run all sort of cool AfterDark screensavers and probably other stuff like Fontographer and Illustrator (and did I mention AfterDark screensavers, which were indisputably cool). In short: I was proud to have SoftwareFPU in one of my original mac boot sequences. ‘Nuff respect.
Comment by Tim at 2:10 am on March 12th, 2004 #link