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From: robert@texas.esd.sgi.com (Robert Skinner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SGI's migration to X
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Date: 6 Sep 90 00:19:57 GMT
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In article <JIM.90Sep5130747@baroque.Stanford.EDU>,
jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman) writes:
|> ... Vicom's new image processor ...
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Just FYI, this must be the Pixar hardware.  
Pixar sold their hardware division to Vicom.
I don't know what this implies about hardware/software 
support for X and/or "Direct Access".

Robert Skinner
robert@sgi.com

	They are your parent's worst nightmare --
	because they ARE your parents.

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				  reunion concert, Berkeley, Sept '89