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The IRIS 3000 systems were the last Motorola based machines SGI ever produced. They have been replaced by the MIPS based 4D series workstations.
The basic bus system for the IRIS 3000 architecture is still Multibus, but for the interconnection between CPU, FPU and memory a private bus is used which was also present on the IRIS 2000 Turbo models.
The IRIS 3000 was the last Silicon Graphics system that used a Motorola 680x0 CPU. It was superseded by the IRIS 4D line which is based on MIPS RISC microprocessors. The first system of that new line is the Professional Iris.
One of the first Wavefront based production companies, Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kleiser and Diana Walczak. Jeff Kleiser went to Colgate University as a CG major using VISIONS, an early fortran code from Syracuse. He made several experimental films and a few commercials by outputting to a DEC Graphics display terminal and shooting 35mm film off the screen. He then moved from Dolphin Productions (1976-77) as a Scanimate operator, Digital Effects (1978-1986) as Animation Director and President, then to Omnibus as Director of the Motion Picture Special Effects Division in LA. Diana Walczak was a sculptor and CG enthusiast from Boston University who met Jeff while at SIGGRAPH 1985, and joined him at Omnibus for a Marvel.

Description

The IRIS 3000 systems were the last Motorola based machines SGI ever produced. They have been replaced by the MIPS based 4D series workstations.
The basic bus system for the IRIS 3000 architecture is still Multibus, but for the interconnection between CPU, FPU and memory a private bus is used which was also present on the IRIS 2000 Turbo models.
The IRIS 3000 was the last Silicon Graphics system that used a Motorola 680x0 CPU. It was superseded by the IRIS 4D line which is based on MIPS RISC microprocessors. The first system of that new line is the Professional Iris.
One of the first Wavefront based production companies, Kleiser-Walczak Construction Company was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kleiser and Diana Walczak. Jeff Kleiser went to Colgate University as a CG major using VISIONS, an early fortran code from Syracuse. He made several experimental films and a few commercials by outputting to a DEC Graphics display terminal and shooting 35mm film off the screen. He then moved from Dolphin Productions (1976-77) as a Scanimate operator, Digital Effects (1978-1986) as Animation Director and President, then to Omnibus as Director of the Motion Picture Special Effects Division in LA. Diana Walczak was a sculptor and CG enthusiast from Boston University who met Jeff while at SIGGRAPH 1985, and joined him at Omnibus for a Marvel.