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Nth Engine/MCA or Nth Engine/2 ?
Both might be "Nth Engine Model 330".
Louis Ohland wrote:
https://archive.org/details/computer-graphics-world-december-1988/page/98/mode/1
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>
> Still not sure of the header for the daughter card. 3D Nth Engines can
> us a T800 for shading, the T414 is drawing.
>
> Nth Graphics Zooms
>
> Users of the IBM PS/2 Model 50, 60, 70, and 80 can zoom large drawings
> produced with PC-based CAD design software, including AutoCAD Release 9
> and 10, VersaCAD, DataCAD, RoboCAD 4, HICAD GM-1000, and Infinite
> Graphics drawings, in about two seconds with the Nth Engine/MCA display
> controller from Nth Graphics (Austin, TX).
>
> The Nth Engine/MCA achieves its speed through a unique design that
> combines the graphics processing power of the T414 Transputer with
> multiple custom graphics chips and holds a compressed copy of the
> drawing`s vector display list locally in 1M of onboard display list RAM.
>
> The Nth Engine/MCA has the same capability as the original Nth Engine
> display controller, including the Nth Birdseye, a pop-up window that
> shows the entire drawing with the zoom-in area highlighted, instant
> color on/off, and Zoomslides.
>
> Priced at $4295, the 16-color graphics board drives monitors with
> 1024by-768 resolution. It can also be used with either one or two
> monitors to display the drawing and text simultaneously or separately.
> Another megabyte of display-list RAM can be added for a total of 2M. And
> a daughter board can be added to increase the display-list RAM up to 4.5M.
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