On 2018-10-26 16:26, Randy Dawson wrote: > Two design wins I remember: > > TrueVision, the AT&T computer graphics people that did the TARGA video > boards had software to back the board sales up, a 3D animation package > TOPAS. > Beautiful, but dog slow even on the fastest 25MHz PCs at the time, so > they had ported it to the i860 as an add in card. I think render frame > rates went from minutes to a few seconds. I used TOPAS under DOSBox on > a current PC, and it screams. Its up on Vetusware if your interested. > > The famous graphic supercomputer hardware war, Ardent / Stellar, the > later merge and purchase by Kubota had two applications, Dore' and > Advanced Visualization System, AVS. > These impressive machines were canned, and Kubota came out with a i860 > desktop for graphics. I remember the introduction in Houston, and the > 3D geophysicists and petro exploration guys were all over it. the > graphics demos and computation capability was amazing. >
Most high end graphics on DecStations had an i860 on it. Rumor is, they were made by Kubota, but never saw a drawing or schematics to prove it ...
