Number Nine Computer Engineering Inc.

SIGGRAPH 1989

Number Nine demonstrates its PEPPER series multiprocessor, shared memory graphics boards designed for both IBM’s Micro Channel, and industry standard AT/XT buses. PEPPER series boards are supported by a broad range of applications running under DOS, OS/2, and UNIX operating systems as well as TIGA and the extensible NNios graphics OS. PEPPER boards range in resolution from 1600×1200 to 640×480, and support up to 32-bit plane color depth, AutoCAD, and Personal Designer POWER9 display list, and RGB/FAL/NTSC real-time frame capture and output.

SIGGRAPH 1988

Number Nine features its Pepper Graphics System family of intelligent display cards demonstrating a broad array of industry-leading software applications. The shared-memory, multi-processor Pepper architecture is packaged into unique graphics cards that meet the specific needs of display-list CAD, image processing, corporate presentation and personal publishing.

SIGGRAPH 1987

Number Nine will display the PEPPER GRAPHICS SYSTEM family of intelligent PC graphics boards. A large library of software toolkits and applications support the series. All PEPPERs have IBM display compatibility; Tl 34010 and/or Intel 82786 32-bit processors; 1-MByte of multiported memory with expansion, and up to 16 million possible on-screen colors.

SIGGRAPH 1986

Number Nine premiers its new intelligent PEPPER Graphics System: a series of one-monitor PC display solutions for professional applications. All PEPPER boards couple memory mapping with advanced graphics VLSI in a CGA/MDA/PGC compatible architecture. Our ProLine series imaging board provides a 640 x 480 x 16 real-time video capture while our design board delivers 1280 x 1024 x 8, non-interlaced; both with 32-bit graphics micro processor assist.

SIGGRAPH 1985

Number Nine introduces the new single-board REVOLUTION 1280 x 4 PC graphics controller board, the industry’s first PC graphic board capable of running at 100 MHz pixel rate. The board has a 2K x 2K pixel addressable window and a non-interlaced 1280 x 1024 viewable window, 4-bit planes deep. The entire REVOLUTION board family will be exhibited including the 512 x 512 x 8 bit plane, the 512 x 512 x 32 bit plane and the 1024 x 1024 x 8 bit plane board configurations.

SIGGRAPH 1984

Number Nine presents the REVOLUTION series of advanced graphic boards for IBM-PC/ XT featur ing Dual-Ported Display Buffer and up to 80MHz band-width capabilities. Demonstrating 256 on-screen colors from 16.8M palette wth NTSC encoding and RS-170 Genlock. Aso exhibiting Color Graphic Systems for the Corvus Concept Workstation and Apple II+/e personal computers. All boards are supported by a comprehensive set of graphic development tools. Our broad line of programming languages and 4XXX emulation provides the ideal foundation for presentation, simulation, CAD, process control, data anal ysis and videotext applications development.

SIGGRAPH 1983

Number Nine Computer Engineering Inc. is the manufacturer of a low cost, single card graphics system for the Apple II and IBM personal computers. The system offers high resolution colors with up to 1024 X 1024 pixels and up to 256 simultaneous colors with an optional 16 million color palette. Its features include hardware drawing of vectors, arcs, rectangles and area fill, as well as pan, scroll, zoom, and multiple windows. Software support includes a graphics interpreter for Pascal, BASIC, FORTH, and the assembly languages for the Apple II/lle and IBM PC, and I/O device drivers such as plotter, graphics tablet, printer, digitizer, and light pen, etc. Number Nine also manufactures a booster card for the Apple ll/lle which executes Apple programs 3.5 times faster.