Nth Engine/350              CAD graphics booster
Nth Engine/350 Makes CAD Faster
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
The Nth Engine/350 is a AT-compatible graphics card that is at
least three times faster than Nth Graphics' previous graphics
cards offerings, the company says.
 
One megabyte of display list RAM is included on the standard
board, and this RAM is expandable to 5 megabytes. A standard
board also displays 16 colors from 4096 at 640 rows by 480
columns with on-board frame buffer video RAM. Frame-buffer RAM
can be expanded for your choice of three higher resolutions up to
1280 rows by 1024 columns and up to 256 colors from a palette of
16.7 million.
 
You can use Nth Engine/350 in dual screen configuration or with a
single screen using VGA pass-through. The display controller
comes standard with drivers for AutoCAD, AutoCAD (Xenix), AutoCAD
386, VersaCAD 386, VersaCAD Design, Personal Designer, Drawbase,
DataCAD, RoboCAD 4, and HiCAD GM-1000. It also supports three-
dimensional models produced in AutoShade and QuickRender.
 
Also included is software called Nth View, a management program
for review of drawings locally, through a LAN, or at a remote
site through a modem. Other included software is GIF file
exchange (an interactive palette editor), a menu-driven display
configuration, and a menu customization tool.
 
Price: 16-color, 1024 by 768 pixel resolution, $3395; 16-color,
1280 by 1024, $3995; 1 megabyte of video RAM for 256 colors,
$800.
 
Contact:Nth Graphics, Ltd., 1807 South, West Braker Ln., Austin,
TX 78758, (512) 832-1944.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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