Apollo DN10000 (was: Available for pickup. )

In article <1137064185.5176.27.camel at fortran.babel>, Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no> writes: I'm interested in the DN1000 because they had a high-performance PHIGS implementation around 1989/1990. This was a time when companies with proprietary graphics APIs (most notably SGI with their GL API) were claiming that a high-performance PHIGS implementation wasn't possible because they didn't like the central structure store (i.e. display lsits). SGI had great engineers, but their sales and marketing force was consistently one of the slimiest kinds of humans I've ever encountered. They would routinely do bait-and-switch type techniques in demonstrations and make all sorts of misleading statements and sometimes outright lies. Its unfortunate that marketplace success leads to sales and marketing arms of companies becoming more often than not arrogant dickheads. At any rate, the DN10000 had a decent PHIGS implementation which I used at the UofU circa 1989/1990. However, it was optional software and didn't ship with the machine by default. My long-term interest in getting one of these is to find a DN10000 with a PHIGS implementation and hopefully docs. SGI machines from the workstation period are relatively easy to collect, but its the more exotic graphics workstations made by competitors that I find more interesting. I know that HP made machines to compete with SGI at this time, but since HP had the habit of giving all their machines completely unrememberable names like the PX400GQ (I'm making that up, but its similar to what they did with their model numers), its hard to know what HP had at this timeframe without being an HP historian. I also know that Sun has a line of 3D graphics accelerators of the period that were built with engineers cribbed from E&S and have some interesting antialiasing features. I think Dave Naigle was one of the principle engineers in the early 90s, don't know if he still works there or not. Then there are more interesting machines like the Ardent/Stellar/ Stardent workstations and the graphics workstations made by Kubota. Anyone have some of these exotica in their collection? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>