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From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
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Subject: Re: Various RS/6000 questions
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:29:00 GMT
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In article <154@rufus.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:
>In article <1990Sep4.200532.19719@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) writes:
>>3.  Languages.  We were told "IBM will support C, where C means:
>>ANSI C, C++ and Objective C."  All I've seen so far is ANSI C.
>>Any news on the other two?
>
>IBM announced C++ and Objective C on Feb 15th, the same day the system
>was announced.

They sure did.  But no one I know has a copy yet.  When will it
be publicly available?  There is an internal-only version of cfront 2.0
(maybe 2.1), but that doesn't do me any good.

>>5. Graphics cards.  Anyone bought any of them?  How do they really
>>perform relative to a stock 320 (what we plan on buying the most of).
>anything to me ... can you be more specific about what you're interested
>in?

I assumed (incorrectly) that the 320 came with some inherent graphics
ability and that the 2d and 3d cards were add-ons.  I was wrong.
How is the performance of the 3d card compared to the 2d card?

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