TITLE

Image is everything

AUTHOR(S)

Impoco, Jim

PUB. DATE

December 1993

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;12/20/93, Vol. 115 Issue 24, p56

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on Silicon Graphics, a company founded by James Clark in 1982 that has set itself apart from rivals by concentrating on `visual computing'--workstations that present realistic 3-D images that can be easily manipulated. New alliances with Nintendo, Time Warner and others; Revenues; Comments by chief executive officer Edward McCracken; Use of Silicon Graphics' technology in movies such as `Jurassic Park.'

ACCESSION #

9312147599

 

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