This weeks "hottest CAM software "

[CNCAppsJames]

This is true
I bought V7 back in 1998 (?)
I had been using TechSoft aka ProCad and I remember calling my Mastercam dealer to bitch about the poor graphics

Back then, if you weren't running a Matrox video card, you were having issues. The other big player... at the time had piss poor OpenGL implementation. 

[gcode]

Back then, if you weren't running a Matrox video card, you were having issues. The other big player... at the time had piss poor OpenGL implementation.

That's what brought me to eMC.
I'd just spent a fortune on an ATI card and was having problems.
I joined eMC looking for help.
At some point I ended up with a Matrox Mystic which ran well.

[CNCAppsJames]

ATI... that's it. Great memory.

They had the top dog gamernvideo cards and all the IT geeks just thought CAD/CAM and gaming are the same. Good for gaming good for our programmers.

[gcode]

Then there was the 3DLabs Oxygen video card.
I don't remember when I started using Nvida Quadro cards
I think they were installed in a couple of Dell Precision refurbs I bought 20 years ago.
I've still got an old laptop I had custom built.
There used to be a whole string of strip mall stores on Beach Blvd that specialized in laptops.
I had a machine custom built for about $2K. It was built from the same components Dell used and I saved
a grand over buying the comparable Dell.
It had a ATI card but there was an emulator that you installed on top of the drivers.
I used that machine for about 10 years.
 

[CNCAppsJames]

I had ONE rig in my career that never crashed even once in the 10-ish years it ran.

It was a dual CPU Pentium Pro 200Mhz. SCSI HDD's 8MB or 16MB and I think a 4MB Matrox Millennium Video Card... running Winfows NT 4.0