 The Eidos Edit 1, Edit 2, and later Optima systems let the editor use "any" Eidos system, rather than being tied down to a particular one, and still keep his data secure.The Optima software editing system was closely tied to Acorn hardware, so when Acorn stopped manufacturing the Risc PC in the late 1990s, Eidos discontinued the Optima system.In the early 1990s, a small American company called Data Translation took what it knew about coding and decoding pictures for the US military and large corporate clients and spent $12 million developing a desktop editor based on its proprietary compression algorithms and off-the-shelf parts.