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AMD's 22-year-old GPUs are still getting driver updates — ATI's R300 - R500 from the early 2000s live on in Linux driver patches thanks to the open-source community (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The GPU featured an AGP interface (an ancient competitor to PCIe)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Tell us, grandpa, what was dial-up like?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

V.92 Screeching "GET OFF THE PHONE!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

That doesn't seem accurate. AGP was an improvement on PCI, and PCIe was the successor to both.