7 Mar
2002
7 Mar
'02
4:49 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
Stardent was not a follow-on from Ardent.
Stardent made a graphics supercomputer with a fancy very wide data path
between the CPU and the graphics engine. Something like 512 bits
wide...
My wife worked there. Stardent attempted to generate a market for a
product that did not already exist. Some were sold for scientific
visualization and other high-end uses. Quite a unique machine
really...not your average workstation at all.
Cool. I have one which I got from the University of Texas at Austin last
summer. I believe that I owe it to a list member who sent me some cool
hardware in exhange for it.
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Jeffrey S. Sharp
jss(a)subatomix.com