Following its deals with DEC and most recently Convex Computer Corp, Newton, Massachusetts-based Stardent Computer Inc has now signed up Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp, Salt Lake City, Utah, for its Application Visualisation System software, AVS. Evans & Sutherland will sell AVS directly to customers using its high-end, three-dimensional graphics workstations, primarily in molecular modelling and computer-aided design applications. The AVS software, which originated from the Stellar side of the company, is becoming a popular programming interface for distributed network environments on workstations through to supercomputers. And Evans & Sutherland also says that its industrial design package – Conceptual Design and Rendering System – is now available on its ESV series of high-end graphics workstations. Chrysler Corp has already signed up for $1m of the CDRS/ESV systems. The 20 MIPS, six-model MIPS Computer R3000-based EVS series ctarts at $30,000, CDRS costs from $45,000.
