Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!mccoy From: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Saw Release 0.981 and here's some news about it... Message-ID: <1131@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Sep 89 02:04:07 GMT References: <393@wjh12.harvard.edu> Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: mccoy@accuvax.nwu.edu (Jim McCoy ) Organization: Northwestern Univ. Evanston, Il. Lines: 48 In article <393@wjh12.harvard.edu> clp@wjh12.UUCP (Charles L. Perkins) writes: >Tonight at the NeXT Boston Computer Society Meeting there was a > system engineer from NeXT who showed us Release 0.981 (N.B. < 1.0) > which is one of the asymptotic sequence on the way to 1.0 > (0.99999....). He said 1.0 was due last week of Sept. or first week > of Oct. and sounded serious about the statement). > Don't they all sound serious ? ;-) I wonder if the hold-ups are due to? >New features: > [stuff deleted] > > (9) Saw a beautiful marbled chess board and 3-d chess pieces as a front-end > to GNU Chess; piece movement seemed really nice. [DAMN! I was going > to do exactly this as a free software hack....but it's nice to know > people at NeXT are serious about GNU, too!] > Okay, everyone who was thinking of doing this as well please raise your hand :-) Now maybe some of us can start hacking the little go board they supply to interact with Gnugo (although it is a VERY weak player). > And their were MANY others demos and new things I couldn't play with > but saw in the browser... there are claimed performance > enhancements in Math. and in the system overall (not all that > obvious to me). This is what i think is of prime importance here. If system speed (at least on the graphics side) does not make a huge leap, i think this system will start down the same road that the Lisa went. I like the system, but i'm not buying unless it gets MUCH faster. > With a NeXT at last, > > Charles jim ------------------------------< Jim McCoy >------------------------------------ mccoy@acns.nwu.edu | "...far too many notes for my taste" #include | -Phantom of the Opera "To thine own self be true"