modern stuff - i860

Two design wins I remember: TrueVision, the AT&T computer graphics people that did the TARGA video boards had software to back the board sales up, a 3D animation package TOPAS. Beautiful, but dog slow even on the fastest 25MHz PCs at the time, so they had ported it to the i860 as an add in card.? I think render frame rates went from minutes to a few seconds.? I used TOPAS under DOSBox on a current PC, and it screams.? Its up on Vetusware if your interested. The famous graphic supercomputer hardware war, Ardent / Stellar, the later merge and purchase by Kubota had two applications, Dore' and Advanced Visualization System, AVS. These impressive machines were canned, and Kubota came out with a i860 desktop for graphics.? I remember the introduction in Houston, and the 3D geophysicists and petro exploration guys were all over it.? the graphics demos and computation capability was amazing.