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- San Francisco, Calif. -- April 24,1992 -- Video Dynamics, Inc. today
- announced SprintGXU, a high performance accelerated display adapter for
- PC-based Unix workstations. Video Dynamics' SprintGXU is a hardware
- accelerated display adapter that brings workstation-like graphics
- performance to 386 or 486 PCs running the Unix System V/386 Operating
- System, X-Window System, and SCO (Santa Cruz Operation) Open Desktop user
- interface.
-
- Video Dynamics' SprintGXU board implements a range of accelerated graphic
- drawing functions in high speed hardware, including Bitblt, Line Draw,
- Area Fill, Image Transfer, Hardware Clipping, etc. These accelerated
- graphics functions are linked with optimized software drivers for Version
- 11 Release 4 of the X-Window System (X11R4) to implement a PC-hosted Unix
- interface with graphics performance rivaling expensive RISC workstations.
- SprintGXU is powered by a 70MHz version of the S3 86C911 graphics
- coprocessor coupled with 1 megabyte of 80ns VRAM display memory, and
- incorporates an ISA (Industry Standard Architecture) bus suitable for
- installation in any ISA or EISA 386 or 486 PC'.
-
- Video Dynamics' SprintGXU X-Window software, developed in conjunction with
- the Santa Cruz Operation, supports all Unix/X-Window applications built in
- conformance with the industry standard OSF/Motif graphical user interface
- toolkit. The OSF/Motif window manager included with Open Desktop enables
- SprintGXU users to customize their PC workstation "desktop" by moving and
- sizing multiple on-screen windows.
-
- Also under SCO Open Desktop, users can concurrently run existing DOS and
- Windows applications using SCO's DOS-UNIX integration feature.
-
- SprintGXU supports X-Window display resolutions of 1280 x 1024 with 16
- colors, 1024 x 768 with 256 simultaneous colors from a palette of 262,144,
- and 640 x 480 with 32,768 colors. Display refresh rate is programmable to
- 70Hz for flicker-free operation, and the board may be used with a wide
- variety of high performance multi-frequency and fixed frequency display
- monitors.
-
- According to Joshua Weinstein, Director of Sales at Video Dynamics, "The
- capability of SprintGXU to accelerate X-Window performance on a PC to the
- speeds of expensive workstation products, now enables PC configurations to
- be effectively used as Unix/X-Window workstations and X-terminals at much
- lower comparable costs."
-
- Says Rick Kamp, Graphics Software Product Manager at the Santa Cruz
- Operation "The SprintGXU graphics accelerator board increases X-Window
- performance under SCO Open Desktop by more than ten times the speed of a
- standard SVGA board, and is one of the most cost effective options to
- install when configuring a high performance Unix/Open Desktop
- workstation."
-
- Video Dynamics' SprintGXU board with SCO Open Desktop X-Window driver is
- shipping now at a retail price of $499 in a full one megabyte video RAM
- configuration. Further product information plus quantity, OEM and reseller
- pricing is available from Video Dynamics, Inc., 1550 Bryant Street, San
- Francisco, CA 94103, phone 1-800-243-3527.
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