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In the mid 1990s, its VISI-CAD and VISI-CAM products were the first to use the PC implementation of the Parasolid kernel. The company was incorporated in 1997 under the name Deepcredit Limited, and then renamed as VI Group Plc in 1998 prior to its listing on the London Stock Market. [1] In October 2007, the company was renamed to Vero Software. [2]
September 1994 - PDA Engineering [10] December 1998 - Knowledge Revolution May 1999 - MSC Software acquired MARC Analysis Research Corporation to add software that tests complex designs and materials. [11] June 1999 - Universal Analytics Incorporation (UAI) [12] November 1999 - Computerized Structural Analysis Research Corporation (CSAR) [12]
Visi On was the first GUI for the IBM PC. Bill Gates came to see Visi On at a trade show, and this seems to be what inspired him to create a windowed GUI for Microsoft. VisiCorp was larger than Microsoft at the time, and the two companies entered negotiations to merge, but could not agree on who would sit on the board of directors.
Hexagon AB is a multinational industrial technology company. [6] Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden [4] and publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, [7] the company since 2000 has had a particular focus on measuring technology [8] and geospatial tools and software. [4]
Hexagon is a subdivision-type 3D modeler owned by Daz 3D. It was originally developed and published by Eovia [ 3 ] and was acquired shortly before the release of version 2.0 by Daz 3D in 2006. The software drew heavily on Eovia's other modeler, Amapi (it shared the same developers), though it omitted the NURBs and precision measuring tools.
Visi On was the first piece of software with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the IBM PC platform. [1] It was also one of the first GUIs available on any personal computer. Visi On was never popular, as it had steep minimum system requirements for its day, but it was influential in the development of later GUIs like Microsoft Windows.
The port of Linux for Hexagon runs under a hypervisor layer ("Hexagon Virtual Machine" [25]) and was merged with the 3.2 release of the kernel. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] The original hypervisor is closed-source, and in April 2013 a minimal open-source hypervisor implementation for QDSP6 V2 and V3, the "Hexagon MiniVM" was released by Qualcomm under a BSD ...
VisiCalc ("visible calculator") [1] is the first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers, [2] originally released for the Apple II by VisiCorp on October 17, 1979. [1] [3] It is considered the killer application for the Apple II, [4] turning the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool, and then prompting IBM to introduce the IBM PC two years ...