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

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.