[rescue] DigitalServer 3305R/AS800 questions

Wed Apr 17 17:08:54 CDT 2002

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:38:26AM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> 
> > Sun and Windows never really got the graphics market. That is why you will
> > always (at least for the near future) still need SGI and E&S.....
> 
> What does E&S produce other than flight sims?  I seem to remeber some stuff
> from them based on commoditiy chips a while back, and supposedly they had
> some screaming systems in the 80s, very early 90s (but I've never seen any
> of it).
> 

They used to do standalone graphics solutions for workstations (freedom
series). But right now they seem to just concentrate on image generators
(that are mostly used for simulation environments), but they are pretty
big in the inmersive environment arena. 