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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: JPEG and NeXTstep 2.2
Summary: Things changed
Message-ID: <1519@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 26 Apr 91 10:59:22 GMT
References: <13642@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <13642@ur-cc.UUCP> prie@escher.cc.rochester.edu (Tod Rieger) writes:
>     A passage from 'Communications of the ACM' April 1991,
>volume 34, number 4, page 45:
>
>NeXTstep 2.1 is currently shipping: this includes all video
>NeXTdimension capabilities with the exception of JPEG hardware
>support. JPEG hardware support will not be available until
>the NeXTstep 2.2 release in the fourth quarter of 1991.

More current information:

On April 23, Avie Tevanian, speaking before the BANG Developer
SIG, said that "as of today" [this past Tuesday] there were *no*
plans for a 2.2 release.  NeXTdimension owners would merely
receive a floppy disk with new drivers.

					-=EPS=-