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* Creator/CDProjekt was Poland's first importer of computer games on CD-ROM. Of course, they've long abandoned that format, and even run their own UsefulNotes/DigitalDistribution service called Platform/GOGDotCom.

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* Creator/CDProjekt was Poland's first importer of computer games on CD-ROM. Of course, they've long abandoned that format, and even run their own UsefulNotes/DigitalDistribution MediaNotes/DigitalDistribution service called Platform/GOGDotCom.



* AMD still uses the ATI brand name internally for system files and/or drivers pertaining to their Radeon line of [[UsefulNotes/GraphicsProcessingUnit graphics processing units]], e.g. "'''Ati'''hdWT6.sys", despite the ATI moniker being dropped long ago. It could be assumed that this is being done for backwards compatibility reasons, but that is moot as the latest drivers no longer support graphics cards and [=IGPs=] sold under the ATI brand.

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* AMD still uses the ATI brand name internally for system files and/or drivers pertaining to their Radeon line of [[UsefulNotes/GraphicsProcessingUnit [[MediaNotes/GraphicsProcessingUnit graphics processing units]], e.g. "'''Ati'''hdWT6.sys", despite the ATI moniker being dropped long ago. It could be assumed that this is being done for backwards compatibility reasons, but that is moot as the latest drivers no longer support graphics cards and [=IGPs=] sold under the ATI brand.



* The command line interpreter window on [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] is informally known as a "DOS box" (not to be confused with [[UsefulNotes/DOSBox the emulator]]), even though on NT systems it's not based on MS-DOS at all.

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* The command line interpreter window on [[Platform/MicrosoftWindows Windows]] is informally known as a "DOS box" (not to be confused with [[UsefulNotes/DOSBox [[MediaNotes/DOSBox the emulator]]), even though on NT systems it's not based on MS-DOS at all.



* In computer graphics, a shader is a program that runs on a UsefulNotes/GraphicsProcessingUnit. The name comes from the fact that the earliest and simplest uses of the technology involved applying shading to the pixels of an image. But the fact that they are programmable meant that they are incredibly flexible, and thus numerous use cases for them were developed beyond simple shading. This included vertex shaders, which transform 3D vertices instead of 2D pixels, as well as compute shaders, which don't necessarily have anything to do with graphics and can perform arbitrary calculations to help with things like physics or data decompression. In spite of all this, the term shader has stuck around to refer to all of these, even though they're used for much more than simple shading these days.

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* In computer graphics, a shader is a program that runs on a UsefulNotes/GraphicsProcessingUnit.MediaNotes/GraphicsProcessingUnit. The name comes from the fact that the earliest and simplest uses of the technology involved applying shading to the pixels of an image. But the fact that they are programmable meant that they are incredibly flexible, and thus numerous use cases for them were developed beyond simple shading. This included vertex shaders, which transform 3D vertices instead of 2D pixels, as well as compute shaders, which don't necessarily have anything to do with graphics and can perform arbitrary calculations to help with things like physics or data decompression. In spite of all this, the term shader has stuck around to refer to all of these, even though they're used for much more than simple shading these days.
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* The Railroad Commission of Texas is in charge of regulating the state's oil and gas industry, and has nothing to do with railroads at all. It used to, but the last of the agency's railroad-related authority was transferred to the state Department of Transportation in 2005.

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