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8-bit PC Hercules Graphics Card from 1984 gets revisited — Hercules GPU from the IBM era shaped the modern graphics we know today

The Hercules Graphics Card, released in 1982, was revolutionary for its time because it combined two popular video modes used in IBM PCs across the corporate world. It could display both sharp text and graphics quickly, thanks to its 32KB frame buffer, offering the best of both worlds in an era when compromise led the conversation.

NVIDIA Prepares For Next-Gen GPUs; Begins Nova Driver Transition From Boot0 To Boot42

25 October 2025 at 15:47

NVIDIA representative holding circuit boards on stage.

The preparation for the successor to the Blackwell series has already begun. The latest patches reveal NVIDIA's transition to Boot42 support for next-gen GPUs. NVIDIA Nova Kernel Graphics Driver Patches Confirm Next-Gen GPUs Will Rely Solely on Boot42 as Boot0 Gets Phased Out NVIDIA usually handles architecture identification through registers such as Boot0, which has been used for the Blackwell cards, but a new Boot42 identification logic has just appeared on NVIDIA's Nova graphics drivers, which suggests that NVIDIA could be moving away from Boot0. Also, there is an explicit indication that NVIDIA has started the preparation of "next-gen" GPUs, […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/nvidia-prepares-for-next-gen-gpus-begins-nova-driver-transition-from-boot0-to-boot42/

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