What to do with Transputer Equipment?

In article <4DE24CF0.13079.10DED41 at cclist.sydex.com>, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes: ES-1 had a very narrow market window. The design functioned properly at lower clock rates, but one of the chips essentially melted when they ran it at the specified clock rate. The design was non-competitive at lower clock rates. E&S is just one of many companies that missed a transition to smaller devices. E&S never really adapted to the transition to workstations; when a workstation was proposed inside the company, it was said that David Evans pronounced workstations "a fad". When E&S finally did make a workstation in 1988/1989, it was too late to enter as a distinct competitor. They later tried to make graphics adapters for other workstations (Sun, HP, IBM) and had some success there, but it was again too late. Even with acquisition of PC accelerator companies, they were not able to compete in the PC world effectively, either. They were relegated to high-end simulation systems but even there SGI machines were stealing away market share from them. E&S had great engineers but amazingly bad marketing and management. IMO, they never should have embarked on ES-1 to begin with. While late with their workstation effort, they did manage to prove that PHIGS/PEX could be implemented with good performance. While not the only deciding factor, this probably redoubled the efforts of SGI to create OpenGL as a defacto standard instead of the industry settling on PHIGS/PHIGS-PLUS which is an ISO standard. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>