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From: ksakotai@hawk.ulowell.edu (Krishnan "krish" Sakotai)
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Subject: Re: Pixar sells hardware division to Vicom
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Date: 3 May 90 18:18:09 GMT
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In article <1990May2.154503.9201@imax.com> dave@imax (Dave Martindale) writes:
>I received a letter from Pixar yesterday.  This is an excerpt from it:
>
>I am writing to tell you that Pixar has agreed to sell our Image Computer
>division to Vicom Systems, Inc. of Fremont, CA. 

> < deleted>

>At the Pixar user's group meeting at last summer's SIGGRAPH, it was
>apparent that Pixar didn't seem interested in doing any more hardware
>development. 
> 
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As one who has been following Pixar's pioneering efforts in the
Graphics/Image processing area for many years, from the formative stages of
Lucasfilm, I was sad to note the above developments. 

Pixar seems to be redefining its goals too frequently for people to get a good
idea of its line of activity. I do not know how well Vicom can take up the
good work done by the people behind Image Computer. Regarding Pixar
President's statement about its wanting to be a graphics software company, I
think they have come a full circle from the Lucasfilm days, when they were
primarily a graphics/animation company. So does this mean one more
competitor for companies like Wavefront, TDI, Alias Research etc ?