 Stellar Computer was founded in 1985 in Newton, Massachusetts, and headed by William Poduska, who had previously founded Prime Computer and Apollo Computer.This company aimed to produce a workstation system with enough performance to be a serious threat to the Titan, and at a lower price.Ardent responded by starting work on a new desktop system called "Stiletto", which featured two MIPS R3000s (paired with two R3010 FPUs) and four i860s for graphics processing (the i860s replaced the vector units).