The Daily DIP Count

I’ve heard long time ago legends of the original Playstation tech demo featuring a T-Rex, but couldn’t find it. Finally somebody uploaded it to YouTube for all the world to admire:

Comments from the thread on B3D:

This demo was first shown off on Playstation hardware back in 1993… 3dfx didn’t exist (as a company), Matrox hadn’t released *any* of it’s consumer cards with 3D acceleration yet (they were the first), and the fastest piece of x86 you could lay your hands on was a 66MHz P5 (which typically ranged between $5K-$8K for a machine with one).

…We did not (and still do not) believe in the standard multithreading model, which is preemptive concurrency with shared memory: we still think that no one can write correct programs in a language where ‘a=a+1’ is not deterministic.