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Commission on July 9,  1998                                Reg. No. 333- _______
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                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D. C. 20549
                                   ----------
                                    Form S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                     EVANS & SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORPORATION
              (Exact name of registration as specified in charter)

        Utah                                             87-0278175
(State of incorporation)                 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

                                 600 Komas Drive
                           Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
                                  (801)588-1000
                    (Address of principal Executive Offices)

         Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation 1998 Stock Option Plan
                            (Full title of the Plan)

           James R. Oyler                                     Copy to:
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Inc.           William C. Gibbs, Esq.
          600 Komas Drive                              David K. Armstrong, Esq.
     Salt Lake City, Utah 84100                          Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
           (801)588-1000                            111 East Broadway, Suite 900
(Name, address and telephone number,                  Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
including area code, of agent for service)                  (801) 237-1900

IF ANY OF THE  SECURITIES  BEING  REGISTERED ON THIS FORM ARE TO BE OFFERED ON A
DELAYED OR CONTINUOUS  BASIS  PURSUANT TO RULE 415 UNDER THE  SECURITIES  ACT OF
1933, OTHER THAN SECURITIES OFFERED ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH DIVIDEND OR INTEREST
REINVESTMENT PLANS, CHECK THE FOLLOWING BOX: [X]

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>


 Title Of                                  Proposed             Proposed
Securities             Amount               Maximum              Maximum             Amount Of
  To Be                To Be           Offering Price          Aggregate          Registration
Registered         Registered (1)        Per Share(2)        Offering Price             Fee
------------       -------------        -------------         -------------       -------------
<S>                   <C>                  <C>                 <C>                  <C> 

Common Stock
$.20 par value
                      400,000              $28.188             $11,275,200           3,326.18
</TABLE>



                                        1

<PAGE>



(1)      This  Registration  Statement shall also cover any additional shares of
         Common  Stock  which  become  issuable  under  the  Evans &  Sutherland
         Computer  Corporation 1998 Stock Plan as amended by reason of any stock
         dividend,  stock split,  recapitalization  or other similar transaction
         effected  without  the  receipt of  consideration  which  results in an
         increase in the number of the  Company's  outstanding  shares of Common
         Stock.

(2)      Estimated  solely  for the  purpose  of  calculating  the amount of the
         registration  fee,  pursuant  to Rule 457(h) of the  Securities  Act of
         1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of the high and low sales
         prices of the  Registrant's  Common  Stock,  as  reported on the Nasdaq
         National Market on July 6, 1998


                                        2

<PAGE>



                     Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
                         Form S-8 Registration Statement
           For Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation 1998 Stock Plan

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference

         Evans  &  Sutherland   Computer   Corporation  (the  "Company"  or  the
"Registrant")  hereby  incorporates by reference in this Registration  Statement
the following documents:

                  (a) The Company's  annual report on Form 10-K,  for the fiscal
         year ended  December 31, 1997,  filed with the  Securities and Exchange
         Commission  ("SEC") on March 31,  1998,  as amended by Form 10K/A filed
         with the SEC on May 13, 1998.

                  (b) The Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
         quarter ended March 28, 1998, filed with the SEC on May 11, 1998.

                  (c) The description of the Company's  Common Stock included in
         the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the SEC on
         September 27, 1978.

                  (d) All documents  subsequently  filed by the Company pursuant
         to Section 13(a),  13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
         1934,  ("the Exchange  Act"),  prior to the filing of a  post-effective
         amendment to this  Registration  Statements which indicates that all of
         the  securities  offered  have been sold or which in this  Registration
         Statement  deregisters all securities then remaining  unsold,  shall be
         deemed to be incorporated by reference and to be a part hereof from the
         date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document
         incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference  herein shall be
         deemed to be modified or superseded  for purposes of this  Registration
         Statement  to the extent  that a statement  contained  herein or in any
         other  subsequently  filed  document  which  also is or is deemed to be
         incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.
         Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,  except as
         so modified or  superseded,  to constitute a part of this  Registration
         Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities

         The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section 12 of
the Exchange Act.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

         Not Applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Officers and Directors


                                        3

<PAGE>

         Section 16-10a-901,  et.seq., of the Utah Revised Business  Corporation
Act authorizes a court to award, or a corporation's board of directors to grant,
indemnity to directors and officers in terms  sufficiently  broad to permit such
indemnification   under  certain   circumstances   for  liabilities   (including
reimbursement  for expenses  incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
The E&S Bylaws  require E&S to indemnify its  directors and officers,  including
circumstances in which  indemnification  is otherwise  discretionary  under Utah
law.  E&S  has  entered  into  indemnification  agreements  with  its  directors
containing  provisions  which are in some  respects  broader  than the  specific
indemnification provisions contained in Utah law. The indemnification agreements
may require E&S,  among other  things,  to indemnify  its directors and officers
against certain  liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service
as directors or officers (other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct
of a culpable  nature),  to advance their  expenses  incurred as a result of any
proceeding  against  them as to which they could be  indemnified,  and to obtain
director and officer insurance, if available on reasonable terms. E&S's Articles
of Incorporation  provide for  indemnification  of its directors and officers to
the  maximum  extent  permitted  by Utah  law,  and  E&S's  Bylaws  provide  for
indemnification  of its  directors,  officers,  employees  and  other  agents as
permitted by Utah law.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration

         Not Applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits

         Exhibit Index located at Page 8.

Item 9.  Undertakings

                    A.       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

                             (1)     To file, during any period in which offers 
or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to the Registration 
Statement:

                                  (i) To  include  any  prospectus  required  by
                    section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                                     (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts
                    or  events   arising  after  the   effective   date  of  the
                    registration  statement  (or the most recent  post-effective
                    amendment thereof) which,  individually or in the aggregate,
                    represent a fundamental  change in the information set forth
                    in the registration statement;

                                     (iii) to include any  material  information
                    with  respect  to the plan of  distribution  not  previously
                    disclosed  in the  registration  statement  or any  material
                    change to such information in the registration statement;

provided,  however,  that  paragraphs  (1)(i)  and  (1)(ii)  do not apply if the
registration  statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3 and the information
required to be included in a  post-effective  amendment by those  paragraphs  is
contained in periodic  reports filed with or furnished to the  Commission by the
registrant  pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.


                                        4

<PAGE>



                             (2)     That, for the purpose of determining any 
liability under the Securities Act, each such  post-effective  amendment  shall 
be  deemed to be a new  registration statement relating to the securities  
offered therein,  and the offering of such securities  at that time shall be 
deemed to be the  initial  bona fide  offering thereof.

                             (3)     To remove from registration by means of a 
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain 
unsold at the termination of the offering.

                    B. The undersigned  Registrant  hereby  undertakes that, for
purposes of determining  any liability  under the Securities Act, each filing of
the  Registrant's  annual  report  pursuant  to  section  13(a)  or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where  applicable,  each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual  report   pursuant  to  Section  15(d)  of  the  Exchange  Act)  that  is
incorporated by reference in the registration  statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration  statement relating to the securities offered therein,  and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

                    C. Insofar as indemnification  for liabilities arising under
the  Securities  Act may be permitted  to  directors,  officers and  controlling
persons of the Registrant  pursuant to the foregoing  provisions,  or otherwise,
the  Registrant  has been  advised  that in the  opinion of the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission such  indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is,  therefore,  unenforceable.  In the  event  that a claim  for
indemnification  against  such  liabilities  (other  than  the  payment  by  the
registrant of expenses  incurred or paid by a director,  officer or  controlling
person of the  Registrant  in the  successful  defense  of any  action,  suit or
proceeding)  is  asserted by such  director,  officer or  controlling  person in
connection with the securities being registered,  the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit  to a  court  of  appropriate  jurisdiction  the  question  whether  such
indemnification  by it is against  public policy as expressed in the  Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                        5

<PAGE>



                                   SIGNATURES


                    Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act,  the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized, in the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, on July 8, 1998.

                           Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation


                           By  /S/ Mark C. McBride
                             Mark C. McBride
                             Vice President, Corporate Controller and Corporate
                             Secretary


                    KNOW BY ALL MEN  THESE  PRESENTS,  that  the  persons  whose
signatures  appear  below  constitute  and  appoint  John T.  Lemley and Mark C.
McBride, and each of them, as true and lawful  attorneys-in-fact and agents with
full power of substitution and resubstitution,  for him or her and in his or her
name,  place  and  stead,  in any  and  all  capacities  to sign  the  Form  S-8
Registration Statement pertaining to the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
1998  Stock  Option  Plan and any or all  amendments  (including  post-effective
amendments) to said Form S-8 Registration Statement,  and to file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC,
granting unto said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing  requisite and necessary to be done, as
fully to all  intents  and  purposes  as he or she might or could do in  person,
hereby  ratifying and confirming all that said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents or
their  substitute or  substitutes  may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

                    Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act, this
Registration  Statement and any amendments to  Registration  Statement have been
signed  below  by the  following  persons  in the  capacities  and on the  dates
indicated.  Moreover,  the  undersigned  hereby also certify that to the best of
their  knowledge and belief the  Registrant  meets all of the  requirements  for
filing on Form S-8.


Signature             Title                                            Date


Stewart Carrell       Chairman of the Board of Directors            July 8, 1998


/S/ James R. Oyler
James R. Oyler        Director and President                        July 8, 1998
                      (Chief Executive Officer)


                                        6

<PAGE>



/S/ John T. Lemley
John T. Lemley         Vice President and Chief Financial Officer   July 8, 1998
                       (Principal Financial Officer)


/S/ Mark C. McBride 
Mark C. McBride        Vice President, Corporate Controller and     July 8, 1998
                       Corporate Secretary
                       (Principal Accounting Officer)


/S/ Gerald S. Casilli
Gerald S. Casilli       Director                                    July 8, 1998

/S/ Peter O. Crisp
Peter O. Crisp          Director                                    July 8, 1998


/S/ Ivan E. Sutherland
Ivan E. Sutherland      Director                                    July 8, 1998



John E. Warnock         Director                                    July 8, 1998



                                        7

<PAGE>



                                INDEX TO EXHIBITS




            EXHIBIT NUMBER                     DESCRIPTION
                  5.1                   Opinion of Snell & Wilmer
                                        L.L.P.
                 23.1                   Consent of Snell & Wilmer
                                        L.L.P. (included in the opinion
                                        filed as Exhibit 5.1)
                 23.2                   Consent of KPMG Peat
                                        Marwick L.L.P. Certified
                                        Public Accountants
                 24.1                   Power of Attorney (included
                                        on signature page)
                 99.1                   Evans & Sutherland
                                        Computer Corporation 1998
                                        Stock Option Plan



                                        8
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange                     Page 1 of 22 pages
Commission on July 9,  1998                                Reg. No. 333- _______
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D. C. 20549
                                   ----------
                                    Form S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      Under
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                     EVANS & SUTHERLAND COMPUTER CORPORATION
              (Exact name of registration as specified in charter)

        Utah                                             87-0278175
(State of incorporation)                 (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

                                 600 Komas Drive
                           Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
                                  (801)588-1000
                    (Address of principal Executive Offices)

         Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation 1998 Stock Option Plan
                            (Full title of the Plan)

           James R. Oyler                                     Copy to:
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation, Inc.           William C. Gibbs, Esq.
          600 Komas Drive                              David K. Armstrong, Esq.
     Salt Lake City, Utah 84100                          Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.
           (801)588-1000                            111 East Broadway, Suite 900
(Name, address and telephone number,                  Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
including area code, of agent for service)                  (801) 237-1900

IF ANY OF THE  SECURITIES  BEING  REGISTERED ON THIS FORM ARE TO BE OFFERED ON A
DELAYED OR CONTINUOUS  BASIS  PURSUANT TO RULE 415 UNDER THE  SECURITIES  ACT OF
1933, OTHER THAN SECURITIES OFFERED ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH DIVIDEND OR INTEREST
REINVESTMENT PLANS, CHECK THE FOLLOWING BOX: [X]

                         CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Title Of                                  Proposed             Proposed
Securities             Amount               Maximum              Maximum             Amount Of
  To Be                To Be           Offering Price          Aggregate          Registration
Registered         Registered (1)        Per Share(2)        Offering Price             Fee
------------       -------------        -------------         -------------       -------------
Common Stock
$.20 par value
                      400,000              $28.188             $11,275,200           3,326.18
1
(1)      This  Registration  Statement shall also cover any additional shares of
         Common  Stock  which  become  issuable  under  the  Evans &  Sutherland
         Computer  Corporation 1998 Stock Plan as amended by reason of any stock
         dividend,  stock split,  recapitalization  or other similar transaction
         effected  without  the  receipt of  consideration  which  results in an
         increase in the number of the  Company's  outstanding  shares of Common
         Stock.

(2)      Estimated  solely  for the  purpose  of  calculating  the amount of the
         registration  fee,  pursuant  to Rule 457(h) of the  Securities  Act of
         1933, as amended, on the basis of the average of the high and low sales
         prices of the  Registrant's  Common  Stock,  as  reported on the Nasdaq
         National Market on July 6, 1998

                                        2
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
                         Form S-8 Registration Statement
           For Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation 1998 Stock Plan

                                     PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.  Incorporation of Documents by Reference

         Evans  &  Sutherland   Computer   Corporation  (the  "Company"  or  the
"Registrant")  hereby  incorporates by reference in this Registration  Statement
the following documents:

                  (a) The Company's  annual report on Form 10-K,  for the fiscal
         year ended  December 31, 1997,  filed with the  Securities and Exchange
         Commission  ("SEC") on March 31,  1998,  as amended by Form 10K/A filed
         with the SEC on May 13, 1998.

                  (b) The Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal
         quarter ended March 28, 1998, filed with the SEC on May 11, 1998.

                  (c) The description of the Company's  Common Stock included in
         the Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A, filed with the SEC on
         September 27, 1978.

                  (d) All documents  subsequently  filed by the Company pursuant
         to Section 13(a),  13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
         1934,  ("the Exchange  Act"),  prior to the filing of a  post-effective
         amendment to this  Registration  Statements which indicates that all of
         the  securities  offered  have been sold or which in this  Registration
         Statement  deregisters all securities then remaining  unsold,  shall be
         deemed to be incorporated by reference and to be a part hereof from the
         date of filing of such documents. Any statement contained in a document
         incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference  herein shall be
         deemed to be modified or superseded  for purposes of this  Registration
         Statement  to the extent  that a statement  contained  herein or in any
         other  subsequently  filed  document  which  also is or is deemed to be
         incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.
         Any statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed,  except as
         so modified or  superseded,  to constitute a part of this  Registration
         Statement.

Item 4.  Description of Securities

         The class of securities to be offered is registered under Section 12 of
the Exchange Act.

Item 5.  Interests of Named Experts and Counsel

         Not Applicable.

Item 6.  Indemnification of Officers and Directors

                                        3
Section 16-10a-901,  et.seq., of the Utah Revised Business  Corporation
Act authorizes a court to award, or a corporation's board of directors to grant,
indemnity to directors and officers in terms  sufficiently  broad to permit such
indemnification   under  certain   circumstances   for  liabilities   (including
reimbursement  for expenses  incurred) arising under the Securities Act of 1933.
The E&S Bylaws  require E&S to indemnify its  directors and officers,  including
circumstances in which  indemnification  is otherwise  discretionary  under Utah
law.  E&S  has  entered  into  indemnification  agreements  with  its  directors
containing  provisions  which are in some  respects  broader  than the  specific
indemnification provisions contained in Utah law. The indemnification agreements
may require E&S,  among other  things,  to indemnify  its directors and officers
against certain  liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service
as directors or officers (other than liabilities arising from willful misconduct
of a culpable  nature),  to advance their  expenses  incurred as a result of any
proceeding  against  them as to which they could be  indemnified,  and to obtain
director and officer insurance, if available on reasonable terms. E&S's Articles
of Incorporation  provide for  indemnification  of its directors and officers to
the  maximum  extent  permitted  by Utah  law,  and  E&S's  Bylaws  provide  for
indemnification  of its  directors,  officers,  employees  and  other  agents as
permitted by Utah law.

Item 7.  Exemption from Registration

         Not Applicable.

Item 8.  Exhibits

         Exhibit Index located at Page 8.

Item 9.  Undertakings

                    A.       The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

                             (1)     To file, during any period in which offers 
or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to the Registration 
Statement:

                                  (i) To  include  any  prospectus  required  by
                    section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;

                                     (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts
                    or  events   arising  after  the   effective   date  of  the
                    registration  statement  (or the most recent  post-effective
                    amendment thereof) which,  individually or in the aggregate,
                    represent a fundamental  change in the information set forth
                    in the registration statement;

                                     (iii) to include any  material  information
                    with  respect  to the plan of  distribution  not  previously
                    disclosed  in the  registration  statement  or any  material
                    change to such information in the registration statement;

provided,  however,  that  paragraphs  (1)(i)  and  (1)(ii)  do not apply if the
registration  statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or Form F-3 and the information
required to be included in a  post-effective  amendment by those  paragraphs  is
contained in periodic  reports filed with or furnished to the  Commission by the
registrant  pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are
incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                                        4
(2)     That, for the purpose of determining any 
liability under the Securities Act, each such  post-effective  amendment  shall 
be  deemed to be a new  registration statement relating to the securities  
offered therein,  and the offering of such securities  at that time shall be 
deemed to be the  initial  bona fide  offering thereof.

                             (3)     To remove from registration by means of a 
post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain 
unsold at the termination of the offering.

                    B. The undersigned  Registrant  hereby  undertakes that, for
purposes of determining  any liability  under the Securities Act, each filing of
the  Registrant's  annual  report  pursuant  to  section  13(a)  or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (and, where  applicable,  each filing of an employee benefit plan's
annual  report   pursuant  to  Section  15(d)  of  the  Exchange  Act)  that  is
incorporated by reference in the registration  statement shall be deemed to be a
new registration  statement relating to the securities offered therein,  and the
offering of such  securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

                    C. Insofar as indemnification  for liabilities arising under
the  Securities  Act may be permitted  to  directors,  officers and  controlling
persons of the Registrant  pursuant to the foregoing  provisions,  or otherwise,
the  Registrant  has been  advised  that in the  opinion of the  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission such  indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is,  therefore,  unenforceable.  In the  event  that a claim  for
indemnification  against  such  liabilities  (other  than  the  payment  by  the
registrant of expenses  incurred or paid by a director,  officer or  controlling
person of the  Registrant  in the  successful  defense  of any  action,  suit or
proceeding)  is  asserted by such  director,  officer or  controlling  person in
connection with the securities being registered,  the Registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit  to a  court  of  appropriate  jurisdiction  the  question  whether  such
indemnification  by it is against  public policy as expressed in the  Securities
Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                        5
SIGNATURES

                    Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act,  the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized, in the County of Salt Lake, State of Utah, on July 8, 1998.

                           Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation

                           By  /S/ Mark C. McBride
                             Mark C. McBride
                             Vice President, Corporate Controller and Corporate
                             Secretary

                    KNOW BY ALL MEN  THESE  PRESENTS,  that  the  persons  whose
signatures  appear  below  constitute  and  appoint  John T.  Lemley and Mark C.
McBride, and each of them, as true and lawful  attorneys-in-fact and agents with
full power of substitution and resubstitution,  for him or her and in his or her
name,  place  and  stead,  in any  and  all  capacities  to sign  the  Form  S-8
Registration Statement pertaining to the Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
1998  Stock  Option  Plan and any or all  amendments  (including  post-effective
amendments) to said Form S-8 Registration Statement,  and to file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC,
granting unto said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents full power and authority to do
and perform each and every act and thing  requisite and necessary to be done, as
fully to all  intents  and  purposes  as he or she might or could do in  person,
hereby  ratifying and confirming all that said  attorneys-in-fact  and agents or
their  substitute or  substitutes  may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue
hereof.

                    Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act, this
Registration  Statement and any amendments to  Registration  Statement have been
signed  below  by the  following  persons  in the  capacities  and on the  dates
indicated.  Moreover,  the  undersigned  hereby also certify that to the best of
their  knowledge and belief the  Registrant  meets all of the  requirements  for
filing on Form S-8.

Signature             Title                                            Date

Stewart Carrell       Chairman of the Board of Directors            July 8, 1998

/S/ James R. Oyler
James R. Oyler        Director and President                        July 8, 1998
                      (Chief Executive Officer)

                                        6
/S/ John T. Lemley
John T. Lemley         Vice President and Chief Financial Officer   July 8, 1998
                       (Principal Financial Officer)

/S/ Mark C. McBride 
Mark C. McBride        Vice President, Corporate Controller and     July 8, 1998
                       Corporate Secretary
                       (Principal Accounting Officer)

/S/ Gerald S. Casilli
Gerald S. Casilli       Director                                    July 8, 1998

/S/ Peter O. Crisp
Peter O. Crisp          Director                                    July 8, 1998

/S/ Ivan E. Sutherland
Ivan E. Sutherland      Director                                    July 8, 1998

John E. Warnock         Director                                    July 8, 1998

                                        7
INDEX TO EXHIBITS

            EXHIBIT NUMBER                     DESCRIPTION
                  5.1                   Opinion of Snell & Wilmer
                                        L.L.P.
                 23.1                   Consent of Snell & Wilmer
                                        L.L.P. (included in the opinion
                                        filed as Exhibit 5.1)
                 23.2                   Consent of KPMG Peat
                                        Marwick L.L.P. Certified
                                        Public Accountants
                 24.1                   Power of Attorney (included
                                        on signature page)
                 99.1                   Evans & Sutherland
                                        Computer Corporation 1998
                                        Stock Option Plan

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