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From: msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  NeWS wanted for 3030
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.202817.11567@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 25 Jan 91 20:28:17 GMT
References: <9101251104.AA03760@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>
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In article <9101251104.AA03760@aero4.larc.nasa.gov>, blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") writes:
|> 
|>    NeWS was never "officially" supported on the 3000's  SGI has it, but
|> wouldn't let it out.  I was told that it ate up so much memory on the 3000's
|> that it wasn't worth having any ways.

Rumors are fascinating.  Now for a few facts:

1.	I ported NeWS to the 3000 before I ported it to the 4D line.

2.	The 3000 port was never completed to product quality; in particular
	no documentation was ever done.

3.	SGI never released this port because it determined that it needed to
	put its resources into other things that had higher priority than
	finishing the port.
	
4.	The lack of documentation and consequent support issues forced SGI
	to decide to not release this version of NeWS to anyone.

5.	To my knowledge the source for this port was never released to anyone.

6.	NeWS ran extremely well on an 8 megabyte 3030.

7.	The port is now old and musty.

There is no possibility we could release this now so please don't ask.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc
"Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein