From: tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> Price/performance for the tms34010 was terrible; it was somewhat faster at graphics (bit-oriented) ops than an 80186 (or other contemporary processor), but it was several times more expensive. TI tried to sell around that by claiming it was a complete general purpose processor in addition to graphics processor so you could build a whole system using the tms34010 as the brains. Unfortunately, if you actually did that, you found that it could manage kbd/mouse/net *or* do graphics, but not really both. It was also integer-only, and had a slow, 16-bit memory interface that killed performance unless you used expensive VRAMs (this was before VGA made VRAM cheap). And TIGA never really took off. Bonus: the development tools were pretty awful. One of the weirder C compilers I've used. Intel came up with the i82786 around the same time that was cheaper, and it looked like you could cook up a cheap 80186+82786 X Term setup that would be competitive. However, I never saw a product like that, just a couple of PC/AT plugin cards (Belltech BLIT). Yup...I worked for the company that designed those. Good times (really...I learned a *lot* about a lot of things), but glad I was an ops guy and not an engineer or developer. There were probably 20 other shops making X Terminals at the same time, 'cause that was the future. I recall having stacks to play with because the market for them evaporated far sooner than marketing predicted. KJ