Template Graphics Software delivers 3D graphics to PowerPC platforms; TGS adds Open Inventor toolkit and applications to PowerPC HRP systems.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1995--Template Graphics Software Inc. today announced product availability and plans for delivery of Open Inventor, a key 3D graphics toolkit, across all major PowerPC Hardware Reference Platforms (HRP), including those for Microsoft Windows NT, 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) AIX, OS/2, Warp Connect (PowerPC), Apple Power Mac and SunSoft Solaris (PowerPC). TGS, which is already shipping Open Inventor for AIX, Solaris and NT, has previously announced ports of the product to Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, Digital UNIX, Apple Mac OS and HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. . Open Inventor is a 3D C++ graphics toolkit which uses the industry-standard OpenGL for 3D graphics rendering. TGS is a cross-platform supplier of Open Inventor, a licensed technology from Silicon Graphics Inc. TGS also co-developed the 3D Internet navigation tool WebSpace with SGI using Open Inventor. Today's announcement positions TGS as a single-stop supplier of key 3D graphics tools for developers targeting PowerPC, Intel, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , Alpha, SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. systems. Open Inventor for PowerPC is key to a number of 3D graphics applications targeting the powerful RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. chip. "Developers who have targeted Silicon Graphics systems for their products view PowerPC systems as a big opportunity," asserted Robert J. Weideman, Vice President of Marketing for TGS. "By using Open Inventor from TGS as their cross-platform graphics programming tool, these developers can deliver 3D products quickly to the entire family of PowerPC systems. Open Inventor also delivers the power of Silicon Graphics 3D software to all important platforms, including the PowerPC." TGS is already shipping Open Inventor for PowerPC for IBM AIX and will begin shipments for Windows NT within 30 days. Development for Open Inventor for PowerPC OS/2 and PowerPC Solaris is under way. TGS produces open systems-based software tools for application developers of Fortune 500, government, independent software vendor (ISV), and academic and research organizations. TGS has offered standards-based graphics tools since 1982 and is the leading independent software supplier of cross-platform graphics tools based upon PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard) A graphics system and language used to create 2D and 3D images. Like the GKS standard, PHIGS is a device-independent interface between the application program and the graphics subsystem. +, OpenGL and Open Inventor. Template Graphics Software, with headquarters in San Diego, is a member of ANSI/ISO graphics committees and the OpenGL Advisory Forum, and is active in establishing new standards and directions for computer graphics technologies. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: The TGS logo and FIGARO+ are trademarks of Template Graphics Software Inc. Windows, Win32s and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. GLINT is a trademark of 3Dlabs Inc. OpenGL and Open Inventor are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc. Solaris is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Inc. Apple is a registered trademark; Power Macintosh, Power Mac and Mac OS are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective companies. CONTACT: Template Graphics Software, Inc., San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. Robert J. Weideman/Diane Connolly, 619/457-5359, ext. 222 Fax: 619/452-2547 Email: info@tgs.com WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. : http://www.sd.tgs.com/(tilde mark)template |
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