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In article <1990Jul24.1...@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> p...@curie.ces.cwru.edu (dr. funk) writes:
>... Some of these guys started
>Three Rivers when it looked like the world needed the
>PERQ workstations.

Unless the Perq's gestation period was even more protracted than I thought,
not so.  Three Rivers got started selling the GDP-1, aka Graphic Wonder,
a vector-drawing display with almost no smarts but immense speed.  It
could keep 100,000 short vectors refreshed without excessively nasty
flicker, assuming you could find some way to cram them all into its memory.
That was an order of magnitude or more better than the competition.  It
was not a big commercial success, I gather, because the market wanted
hardware 3D transformations and the like rather than raw drawing speed.

U of T's Dynamic Graphics Project was TRCC's first commercial customer; 
GDP-1 serial number 1 is sitting (powered down, alas) about twenty feet
away as I type this.
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