Appian Graphics

Not to be confused with Appian Technology.

Appian Graphics

Company type	Division of ETMA Corporation
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1994
Defunct	2001
Fate	Acquired by Colorgraphic Communications, Inc., and ATI Technologies Inc.
Headquarters	Redmond, Washington , United States
Products	Graphics processing units

Appian Graphics was a supplier of multi-monitor graphics accelerators founded in 1994.

History

The company was best known for its Jeronimo and Gemini product lines, and for the HydraVision display management software.^[1] The main competitor for Appian on the multi-monitor solutions market was STB Systems.

The company was acquired in July 2001 by Colorgraphic Communications, Inc., which ceased business in 2007 or 2008.^[2][3]

Appian Graphics originally developed HydraVision in the late 1990s^[4] for their multi-head display solutions. ATI Technologies acquired^[5] HydraVision in July 2001 along with Appian's HydraVision team to join its then-new dual-head Radeon 7500 and 8500 series.

Appian Rotate was developed in 1998 for hardware accelerated portrait display, it allowed off the shelf graphics components that supported 3D texture mapping for rotating the offscreen desktop screen correctly onto the display out buffer. It has become the default standard in the industry for portrait mode and is still used by display drivers to support portrait display.

Graphics adapters

Dual-head Appian Graphics Jeronimo J2/N, 1995 (2× Cirrus Logic CL-GDGD5462-HC-B – 4 MB)

Dual-head Appian Graphics Jeronimo Pro, 1998 (2× 3Dlabs Peremdia 2 – 2× 8 MB)

• Appian Graphics Jeronimo J2/N
  • Dual Head 3/4 size PCI adapter
  • 4 MB
  • Cirrus Logic CL-GDGD5462-HC-B chipset
• Appian Jeronimo Pro
  • Dual Head PCI adapter
  • 8 or 16MB (4 or 8MB/head)
  • 3Dlabs Permedia 2 VPU chipset
• Appian Jeronimo Pro 4-Port
  • Quad Head PCI adapter
  • 32MB (8MB/head)
  • 3Dlabs Permedia 2 VPU chipset
• Appian Jeronimo 2000
  • DualHead PCI adapter
  • 64MB (32MB/head)
  • 3Dlabs Permedia 3 VPU chipset
• Appian Gemini
  • Dual Head AGP 2X adapter
  • 16MB SGRAM
  • S3 Savage MX chipset based
• Appian Rushmore
  • Quad Head PCI adapter
  • 64MB (32MB/head)
  • Dual ATI R100 chipset based

References

1. Appian HydraVision Reference Guide, Redmond, WA: Appian Graphics, a division of ETMA Corporation
2. "Colorgraphic–Innovators in multi-screen technology since 1988". Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
3. "Colorgraphic–We are sadly closing our doors". Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
4. "HydraVision web presentation". January 25, 1999. Archived from the original on January 27, 1999. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
5. "ATI ACQUIRES HYDRAVISION SOFTWARE FROM APPIAN". EDP Weekly's IT Monitor. Aug 6, 2006 – via thefreelibrary.com.

External links

• Official website (appiantech.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived December 27, 1996)
  • Official website (appiangraphics.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived January 28, 1998)
  • Official website (appian.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived May 8, 1999)