Appian Ships the Industry's Most Powerful AGP Dual Monitor Graphics Card.REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Appian Graphics Since its inception in 1994, Appian Graphics was one of the leading suppliers of multi-monitor graphics accelerators. The company was famous for its Jeronimo and Gemini product lines, and for the HydraVision display management software. (R) Corporation announced it is now shipping the most powerful dual monitor graphics card to date, the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. Jeronimo(TM) 2000. Designed to fulfill the needs of engineers, bankers, traders and digital content creators, the Jeronimo 2000 2D/3D card is the key to expanding desktop space without compromising performance. Jeronimo 2000 with support for PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). will be available later this quarter. Designed on the premise the more you see, the more you can do, the Jeronimo 2000 enables users to maximize space across two displays from a single AGP slot. The Jeronimo 2000 provides raw graphics performance to drive demanding applications at resolutions as high as 1920 x 1080 x 32bpp at 85Hz and supports OpenGL(R) and DirectX(R) for high-end 2D/3D acceleration. The Jeronimo 2000 is ideal for a variety of creative professionals in computer-aided engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer and design, desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, and digital content creation The development of newsworthy, educational and entertainment material for distribution over the Internet or other electronic media. See DAMS. , as well as financial trading. As with all Appian cards, the Jeronimo 2000 is fully compatible with Windows(R) NT(R) 4.0. Windows 98 support for the card will ship this quarter. Utilizing the Appian/B1 bridge developed by Appian and 3Dlabs(R), the Jeronimo 2000 is the only multi-chip, multi-monitor card on the market that is AGP compliant. This unique architecture gives the Jeronimo 2000 exceptional performance that will appeal to a variety of power users. With two Permedia(R)3 chips from 3Dlabs, the Jeronimo 2000 performs optimally with reduced rendering time. It delivers realistic images and scenes with high-resolution display and color space conversion Changing one type of color-encoded signal into another. Converting from RGB to YUV and back to RGB are common color space conversions when working with video formats (see YUV). Converting from the display color space (RGB) to the printer color space (CMYK) is another common example. , as well as a 125 million multi-texture pixels per second fill rate. Using two standard DB-15 connectors, the Jeronimo 2000 supports both CRTs and analog flat panel displays. In addition, two Jeronimo 2000 cards can be used to support four monitors from one PC. Controlling complex display tasks across multiple monitors is a snap with HydraVision(TM), Appian's patented display management software, bundled with the Jeronimo 2000. HydraVision enables users to position window and dialog boxes across multiple monitors, direct and manipulate information across multiple monitors, and set independent resolution and refresh rates for each monitor. "Appian is thrilled to provide its customers with the most advanced and comprehensive dual monitor card thus far," states Scott Lathe lathe (lāth), machine tool for holding and turning metal, wood, plastic, or other material against a cutting tool to form a cylindrical product or part. It also drills, bores, polishes, grinds, makes threads, and performs other operations. , Appian's vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. "The Jeronimo 2000 offers professionals a multiple monitor environment equipped with the most sophisticated features, including maximum performance for accelerated 2D/3D graphics, from a single AGP slot." Features -- Two Permedia3 128-bit graphics controllers -- AGP compliant -- Support for hardware accelerated DirectX and OpenGL across multiple monitors -- HydraVision multiple monitor software -- Designed for Windows 98/NT 4.0 and 2000 -- Support for independent resolutions and refresh rates per monitor -- 32MB SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics RAM) A type of dynamic RAM chip that is similar to the SDRAM technology, but includes enhanced graphics features for use with display adapters. -- Support for PCI available later this quarter About Appian Graphics Market leader Appian Graphics Corporation designs, manufactures and markets award-winning, high-performance multiple-monitor display cards for information intensive markets such as finance, computer aided design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". (CAD), process control and digital content creation. Dominating the multiple monitor industry with nearly half the market share, as reported by Dr. Jon Peddie in his April 1999, multi-monitor study, Appian's solutions have been recognized by world-renowned technology leaders such as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Dell and Microsoft. Additional information about the Redmond, Wash., based company can be found on the World Wide Web at: www.appian.com. Appian Graphics is a registered trademark of Appian Graphics. Appian Jeronimo, AppianDX, and HydraVision are trademarks of Appian Graphics. Appian software programs and Appian hardware devices are covered by one or more of the following U.S. patents: 5,835,090; 5,848,294; 5,949,437. Additional patents are pending. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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