They sort of tried with a machine running Windows. The SGI Visual Workstation was meant to be that. It was quite a bit more expensive that 2K though. https://

They sort of tried with a machine running Windows. The SGI Visual Workstation was meant to be that. It was quite a bit more expensive that 2K though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation Where I worked in 1999 we got one. They had a neat unified memory architecture. For some video tasks they were fantastic. But the issue was that the Intergraph had better machines for PC 3D. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph Then Intergraph got eaten by Nvidia who leveraged the huge demand for gaming hardware to improve their GPUs again and again. Also Linux on x86 with Nvidia became an attractive proposition for CAD and some 3D modelling.