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Remember the C&T WINGINE?

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I configured a PC from eCesys (of Alaska) to run NEXTSTEP for Intel 3.2 in 1994. It was a mini-tower that contained a fast JCIS motherboard with a proprietary WINGINE slot. The WINGINE was a gfx bus / card that delivered massive throughput, and no geometry acceleration. It was what NEXTSTEP wanted, and it was insanely fast at playing back MPEGs in Win 3.1.

I wrote about it a while ago:

http://www.bytecellar.com/2007/02/09/chips_technolog/

I got 52.6 on 3DBench with that motherboard using a 486DX2 66, after I replaced the Wingine with a Herc Dynamite Power when DOS performance was what I wanted (after I stopped running NEXTSTEP...). It was a fast board.

...oh - be sure to read the comments on that post of mine...

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Reply 1 of 2, by blakespot

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I just scanned in a photo of the WINGINE.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/116256 … 57606003277513/

Also updated the aforelinked post with more info.

bp

:: Visit the Byte Cellar, my vintage computer blog (since 2004).
:: See a panorama of my own Byte Cellar (a.k.a. basement computer room)...
:: twitter: @blakespot

Reply 2 of 2, by j^aws

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Thanks for sharing. I vaguely remember WINGINE - in hindsight, sounds like what the AGP slot became.

I also followed NeXTSTEP from the late '80s too, but never did build/ buy into it. Got sidetracked by the cheaper Linux around that time. NeXT had the slickest windows manager though, and I remember that “solid drags” for windows bringing the desktop to life (I got my fix on RiscOS). I'm glad NeXT still lives on in Mac OS X...

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