Linotype-Hell DaVinci was an image manipulation program targeted at the repro and print shop markets.
Heidelberg continued to update the software a few times before it was discontinued in April 2001, but the core engines for trapping and color management were recoded to work on PDF files and were a key contributor to the commercial success of Prinergy, which benefitted from the Heidelberg-Creo joint venture.
DaVinci originally ran on proprietary "Power" workstations with dual 68040 or 88110 processors and several custom ASICs.
In the early days of Photoshop and Apple Macintosh hardware, rotation and scaling of large digital images taxed those machines to the limit, often taking several minutes to complete.
In a high-end colour shop the Davinci performed these manipulations and many others with ease and in seconds, especially on the proprietary hardware.