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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Statement of Direction - IRIX 4.0
Message-ID: <27419.2766098f@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 90 16:42:22 GMT
References: <1990Dec8.160035.12417@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <1990Dec8.160035.12417@odin.corp.sgi.com>, karlton@sgi.com (Phil Karlton) writes:
> 		Statement of Direction - IRIX 4.0
> 
> With release 4.0 of IRIX, SGI will be providing a native implementation
> of X11 Release 4, Motif 1.1 with an enhanced Motif window manager,
> Display PostScript, and the IRIS Graphics Library ...

[more stuff deleted...]

The graphics improvements will be great; however, numerical computations
also are important to some of us.  The "Statement of Direction" focused
completely on graphics, with no reference to computation.  Is this because
it is only part of a larger "Statement", or because SGI really doesn't
plan to do much with the numerical stuff?   (Yes, I know what the "G"
stands for in SGI ...)

If IRIX 4.0 will bring improvements to the numerical side of life, it would
be nice to have a corresponding "Statement of Direction" for customer
comments and suggestions.
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