Appian Graphics

Founded in 1994, Appian Graphics was a supplier of multi-monitor graphics accelerators.

The company was best known for its Jeronimo and Gemini product lines, and for the HydraVision display management software. The main competitor for Appian on the multi-monitor solutions market was STB Systems.

The company was acquired in July 2001 by Colorgraphic.

Appian Graphics originally developed HydraVision in late 90s^[1] for their multi-head display solutions. ATI acquired^[2] HydraVision in July 2001 along with Appian's HydraVision team to join its then-new dual-head Radeon 7500 and 8500 series.

Appian graphics adapters

Appian J Pro / Appian Jeronimo Pro
- Quad Head PCI adapter
- 16 or 32MB (4 or 8MB/head)
- 3Dlabs Permedia 2 VPU chipset
Appian Gemini
- Dual Head AGP 2X adapter
- 16MB SGRAM
- S3 Savage MX chipset based

References

^ HydraVision web presentation at the Wayback Machine (archived January 27, 1999) published Jan 25, 1999, retrieved November 26, 2010.
^ "ATI ACQUIRES HYDRAVISION SOFTWARE FROM APPIAN". EDP Weekly's IT Monitor. Aug 6, 2006 – via thefreelibrary.com.

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[1] HydraVision web presentation at the Wayback Machine (archived January 27, 1999) published Jan 25, 1999, retrieved November 26, 2010.

[2] "ATI ACQUIRES HYDRAVISION SOFTWARE FROM APPIAN". EDP Weekly's IT Monitor. Aug 6, 2006 – via thefreelibrary.com.

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