ackshually babbage’s difference engine was a commercial and scientific computer so I think you’ll find that’s where this all actually began, if you really understand the roots of the technology
but oh no those trig tables were used for military ballistics, I am le owned!!!
like sorry dude yes everyone here knows computing has always been intertwined with quasi-military applications like codebreaking ARPANET but this specific branch of tech has nothing more than broad general links that everything in computing shares. This particular tech is almost purely an outgrowth of gaming tech and that’s actually sort of unique and interesting in itself, don’t stifle substantive discussion just to throw in a “well ackshuyally” that’s not even very relevant, that’s very disruptive and antisocial. Please foster good discussion here, that’s the underlying mandate of this site.
During this entire time, GPU innovating was propelled forward by gaming.