Evans & Sutherland ES- 1

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The ES-1 was Evans & Sutherland's abortive attempt to enter the supercomputer market. About to be released just as the market was drying up in the post-cold war military wind-down, only a handful were built and only two sold. Jean-Yves Leclerc was a computer designer who was unable to find funding in Europe for a high-performance server design. In 1985 he visited Dave Evans, his former PhD. adviser, looking for advice. After some discussion he eventually convinced him that since most of their customers were running E&S graphics hardware on Cray Research machines and other supercomputers, it would make sense if E&S could offer their own low-cost platform instead. Eventually a new Evans & Sutherland Computer Division, or ESCD, was set up in 1986 to work on the design. Unlike the rest of E&S's operations which are headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, it was felt that the computer design would need to be in the "heart of things" in Silicon Valley, and the new division was set up in Mountain View, California.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 92
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786131449307
• ISBN-10: 6131449309
• Artikelnr.: 31716385