Chrome and Avalon

Posted By: goran | Sep 17th, 2004 @ 3:35 AM
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#Sep 17th, 2004 @ 3:35 AM
goran
goran
As far as I know, Avalon is not the first time that Microsoft has tried to make a hardware rendered user interface. I believe that they had something called Chrome in the late 1990s. I also think that it was more of a plugin to IE so that it would be possible for content developers to develop crisp content for those who had a 350MHz computer with a AGP GPU with, I think, at least 8MB or something ;^).
 
But I haven't heard anything more of this system... Does anyone here know what happend to it? Did they shut it down? And if so, why? Or have they included the code somewhere else?
 
Regards,
/G
#Sep 17th, 2004 @ 4:23 AM
debug77
debug77
I am here
Hi,

I was on the original beta for it (am I allowed to say that??!), and at the time, I didn't know a single person that could run the software. It required a lot of memory back then and a hefty CPU!

I only ever received these two CDs, and then after that it all stopped, and I didn't hear another thing. One in May 98 called "Chrome - May 98/Beta 2", and then another in July 98 which to all intents and purposes seems to be the final release - "Chromeffects for Windows 98 - Software Development Kit July 1998 Version 1.0"

I think MS were trying to be too futuristic and the world wasn't ready for it! Smiley

Like you say, it would be interesting to know whatever happened to it.

Regards,
Chris
#Sep 17th, 2004 @ 4:45 AM
RickH
RickH
Some speculation here: http://thetechnozone.com/the3Dzone/news/3d-chrome.html
The link doesn't appear to work. I guess C9 is "filtering" it somehow.... Copy-Paste if you want to read...
#Sep 17th, 2004 @ 5:18 AM
jsrfc58
jsrfc58

I read the book "Renegades of the Empire" a while back, and what I got out of it was that Chrome sort of "disappeared" and some parts of it were pulled into other things (offhand, I can't remember what).  But I think a lot of the technology went away with Alex St. John, who developed DirectX and then went on to found WildTangent.

#Sep 17th, 2004 @ 7:22 AM
goran
goran
Great info!

Thank you.

/G.
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