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[ continuation ] Amiga UNIX and XWindows and it looked GREAT at the show, seemed responsive too. A few of the other products supporting the Resolver now or in the near future (according to DMI promotional material) include ADPro, ImageMaster, Draw 4D Pro, DynaCADD, Professional Page 3.0, Imagine, Caligari, Animagic, Video Titler, Presentation Manager, Disk-Master and 3D Professional. In addition, in a couple of months DMI is releasing the NEW Resolver based on the TI 34020 chip. It is full 24 bit graphics. It also has onboard graphics accelerators/math chips that are added as plug-in modules. There is room for 4 of these modules. Each comes with a processor (I don't know what it is) and 512K of DRAM. According to DMI EACH module is capable of 40 megaflops performance, for a total of 160 MFLOPS. It is my understanding that low-end Silicon Graphics Workstations do about 38 MFLOPS. Sounds pretty interesting. There is an upgrade path for all owners of current Resolvers. Regardless of what you may have paid for their current board you will be given credit of the full MSRP for your particular board when upgrading to the 020 board. Prices are not really firm now but a ball-park figure may be $2499 for the 'A' model of the 020 board with no added modules. The modules are supposed to be around $600 each. SO….. that is what I have to contribute. Perhaps it will stimulate some discussion and interest in the board. – via Whap!