High performance coprocessor boards of the 80s and 90s - was Re: SGI ONYX

I had a similar board set for CAD, wish I still had it. It was two boards, a 68000 and a graphics board, to run VERSACAD. In the CAD wars against AUTOCAD, we were winning for a bit, I was a rep selling this 3D solution. It was Sun3 boot, and ran the Sun version of VERSACAD. ________________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Michael Holley <swtpc6800 at comcast.net> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 9:57 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: RE: High performance coprocessor boards of the 80s and 90s - was Re: SGI ONYX I worked for the FutureNet division of Data I/O in the late 1980s. One disastrous product was a UNIX based coprocessor system that plugged into an IBM PC/AT. The idea was to run circuit board layout software and simulation on a PC. This would be less expensive than the Daisy, Mentor, or Valid workstations. The coprocessor was an Opus plug in board based on the National 32032 CPU. http://cpu-ns32k.net/Opus.html When you ordered the package you got the coprocessor board and a 5 MB hard drive loaded with UNIX and the design software. On a good day the system worked. It was discontinued when PCs with the 368 processor were available. Michael Holley