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To: GraceZ who wrote (861)	1/22/2001 6:25:56 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Hi Grace Z. Zaccardi; The vast majority of the graphics card makers went out of business long enough ago that their names are now pretty much forgotten. As far as Matrox goes, they're privately held, aren't they? Though Intergraph is not primarily a graphics card maker, their long term stock chart is exactly what I was referring to. Their stock is considerably cheaper now than it was in 1987: finance.yahoo.com STB is worse, they got bought by 3dfx, which stock has recently been as low as 10 cents, down from the high $30s: quote.yahoo.com Of the three companies you listed, one is private, and the other two have lousy long term stock charts, and these are representatives of the winners. The losers fell off the chart completely. A quick search of the internet drummed up the following graphics cards manufacturers in the Orcad list for high resolution. The vast majority of these companies are now gone. Here are the As, Bs, and Cs: Actix Advanced Integration Research Ahead Systems AllStar Microsystems American Megatrends (still in business, but not graphics) Appian Technology Applied Data Systems Artist AST (what happened to them?) ATI AVM Technology AvTech Development, Inc. Boca Research Cardinal Chips & Technologies (remember them?) Chroma ATE, Inc. Cirrus Citizen Communication Inter-Globe Compaq (still in business, but not really in graphics cards) CornerStone CSS Laboratories ... pcb.cadence.com In addition to the ABCs listed above, in 1986 I had a contract with Conographics, and they aren't even on the above list. Of course some of the names are duplicates, or divisions of larger companies. But the fact is that the vast majority of these companies aren't around anymore. -- Carl