Working in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Co, Visual Information Technologies Inc, Fort Collins, Colorado has adopted Hewlett-Packard’s new 68040-based HP Apollo 9000 Model 400 as the basis of an image processing workstation to be marketed to customers in government, intelligence, geographic information systems, medical, electronic prepress, environmental systems, document management, and oil and gas from early next year: Visual Information expects to design an integrated Hewlett-Packard compatible, board-level image computer, which will run in a VME backplane that will also be compatible with the company’s own 300m operations per second VITec-50 Image Computer; the new machine will come on three boards using six custom chips including four parallel image processors, which enable true-colour, 24-bit processing per pixel, with an additional eight bits of overlay and utility control for non-destructive annotation of text or graphics, and will be based on the X Window System Version 11 and run under HP-UX Unix with OSF/Motif.
