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>>BirAda+(OP)
3DFX was basically the shit in mid late 90s. First time seeing Quake in OpenGL was insane - before that all games were rendered in software.

>>Seanam+Xj
Nope, the blitter engine on Amiga, tile engine on consoles like Nintendo and Sega, the early GPUs on arcades like TMS34010, glide on 3Dfx.

Quake used miniGL, not full OpenGL.

>>pjmlp+yn
I guess they're specifically referring to textured polygon-based 3D graphics.

There were a few earlier attempts that failed for one reason or another, mostly poor performance. I think there was a French accelerator card that I can't remember the name of right now.