John Carmack about Parhelia

[Ali]

It wont be Fusion, although that is a cool name. From what I understand, Fusion was the code name of a intergrated motherboard chipset.

Would have had to have been for Intel CPUs, as Matrox are business oriented, and AMD still dont have a name for reliability in that market (not trying to start a flame war, just the facts).

Pity it never came out. I wonder what happened to it? Probably the same as what happened to the G800

If you think about what Matrox have, they could intergrate their own network card, their own graphics card, and have an AGP port to allow for quad head, if you added another G series graphics card. Cool!

Would have been very cool in a laptop.

Ali

[Marshmallowman]

Matrox already make multichip cards...g200mms and g450mms, they are independent displays but the are integrated on the same card..(and very stable)

Bring this tech forward with parhelia, and you have two indepdent displays. with full acceleration on both...sounds professional to me.

I don't think matrox first parhelia'i's, willl do this but I would bet you crate full of parhelias that they will release one eventually...maybe even a quad chip...they make a packet from there MMS line.

[Evildead666]

i couldn't leave this without making a comment, sorry.

singular: Virus
plural: Virii

There ya go.

(i hope i spelt plural right, or is it plurial...?)
((Maybe we should start a dictionary thread...or read more.)

[rubank]

Nice seeing everybody agree to the fact that parhelia, while being used to describe a singular pluralistic phenomenon, is a plural form.

[frankymail]

And the lesson to be learned from this thread . . . never argue about codenames-grammar with a M'user

[Wombat]

Evildead: If you're talking about English, it's viruses, not virii. Look it up.

[TravelerX]

[JF_Aidan_Pryde]

virii LOL

virii? That's almost as funny as Ralph: "Me fail English? Dat's unpossible."

For your information:
-- Copy and cut from Dictionary.com FAQ

Q. What is the plural of virus?
A. Viruses.
It is not viri, or (which is worse) virii. True, the word comes directly from Latin, but not all Latin words ending in -us have -i as their plural. Besides, viri is the Latin word for 'men' (plural of vir, man, the root the English virile). There is in fact no written attestation of a Latin plural of virus.

[frankymail]

"Virus" in latin means "Poison" and the latin plural form is "Virii"… which is not the same as the nominative/vocative plural form "Viri".

[Wombat]

http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html

Best line:

Those confused souls who write *virii are tacitly positing the existence of the non-word *virius, and declining it as though it were like filius. It's true that l/r are both linguals that sometimes get interchanged, and that f/v are just a change in voicing[2], but that's just reaching. <B>*Virii is still completely silly, so don't do that; otherwise, everyone will know you're just a blathering script kiddie. </B>

[az]

IF there was a latin word "VIRUS" (which I don't know) the plural would have been "VIRI", assuming it was o-declination (which would be a logical assumption because there are only the o- and the u-declination for substantives ending with "-us", and the u-declination is far used far less often - of course, the plural would then have been "VIRUS" with a long "u").

IIRC, it would have been declinated (is "declinated" right? I'm no native english speaker):

[i]nom[/i]:       virus     viri
[i]gen[/i]:       viri      virorum
[i]dat[/i]:       viro      viris
[i]acc[/i]:       virum     viros
[i]abl[/i]:       viro      viris

AZ

[az]

Of course, as was said above, all this silly talk about a codename is just... silly The first purpose of the P codename is to sound cool. The "Condor" codenames didn't exactly sound cool, but what on earth have you read into them?

AZ

[rubank]

So, Parhelia is just a project name.

The retail card will be called
Matrox Virus

(that seems to be the essence of the ongoing discussion)

rubank

[Tempest]

Heck, looking at all these posts I think they should borrow something from those perfume makers and fashion houses and make the new card the Matrox&reg; Obsession™...

[DuRaNgO]

With all the talking about it going on, maybe it should be called the Matrox Oral then dualhead would have more impact