Developer's Forum

[Jim Bennett]

In article <1991Apr2.010401.18605 at neon.Stanford.EDU> loan at neon.Stanford.EDU (James P. Loan) writes:
>
>I just received a 19-page fax describing the Developer's Forum to be held in
>May. Though it all looks fine and dandy, I am unable to PAY Silicon Graphics
>to tell me what their plans are for the next 18 months. Perhaps they are
>charging just enough to break even on the "event," but I still cannot pay it.
>So I am wondering if there will be proceedings available which will describe
>in detail IRIX 4.0 and the whole X/GL interface. I am not a Geometry Partner,
>so I don't get any information that way. I'm just a government employee with
>a Personal IRIS trying to develop a biomechanics software package. It's going
>to be hard convincing 20 research labs to get IRISes to run my software if the
>machines they buy 6 months from now won't run my GL/NeWS program.

Well, if you stick to the GL, then your program will work fine.  If you
are doing NeWS specific stuff, sending postscript to the NeWS server for
example, then it won't work.  If you really need postscript, there will
be a display postscript extension available.

>I don't need any special treatment, I'd just like to get details on where SGI
>is going before they get there (without having to pay hundreds of dollars).
>Does anyone know if proceedings will be available?
>
>thanks,
>pete loan
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>pete loan                            Mobius strip for sale,
>loan at neon.stanford.edu               see details on other side.

I don't know what our plans are for publishing proceedings.  Maybe
someone else does?

Jim Bennett