IBM has gone to Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View for its Iris graphics boards, and will also take a licences for the Iris Graphics Library – presumably for use on the RT and 370 machines. Silicon Graphics, which also has a major OEM agreement with Control Data, looks for the IBM agreement to encourage software […]
IBM has gone to Silicon Graphics Inc, Mountain View for its Iris graphics boards, and will also take a licences for the Iris Graphics Library – presumably for use on the RT and 370 machines. Silicon Graphics, which also has a major OEM agreement with Control Data, looks for the IBM agreement to encourage software developers to write new applications that interface to the Iris Graphics Library. Most of IBM’s graphics terminals have traditionally come from Sanders Associates, now owned by Lockheed Corp, in part in settlement of an anti-trust suit, but Silicon Graphics is reckoned by some to have the best graphics technology on the market. London, Friday September 16 1988