anyway, setting up a new video card on a Sun machine is super easy and total jumperless! all you have to do is burn a new EPROM and solder some wires, then update your NVRAM config, and presumably some OS shenanigans, maybe recompiling a kernel or something lol.
so someone pointed out that the two crossed out names on the TurboGX card, CURTIS and CHRIS M, left Sun to found Nvidia!
![Priem originally wanted to call it the "GXNV", as in the "next version" of the GX graphics chips which he had worked on at Sun.[33] Then Huang told Priem to "drop the GX", resulting in the name "NV".[33] Priem made a list of words with the letters "NV" in them.[35] At one point, Malachowsky and Priem wanted to call the company NVision, but that name was already taken by a manufacturer of toilet paper.[27] Both Priem[35] and Huang have taken credit for coming up with the name Nvidia,[27] from "invidia", the Latin word for "envy".](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/264/593/110/140/163/original/6f048a9c69587b2f.png)
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