Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!news
From: ernest@cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Renderman on NeXT
Keywords: Renderman, Pixar
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.004514.7140@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 30 Apr 91 00:45:14 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.171838.1889@dircon.co.uk>
Sender: news@nntp-server.caltech.edu
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Lines: 17

In article <1991Apr29.171838.1889@dircon.co.uk> uad1121@dircon.co.uk (Jonathan  
Tilley) writes:
> 
> A friend of mine has heard via a NeXT employee that Steve
> Jobs has announced at the launch of NeXT France that Pixar
> will release a version of Renderman for the NeXT.
> Has anyone else heard about these issues??

I called Pixar on the phone, and they said they would have a version for the  
NeXT in June that I could buy for $2,500 (plus 50% off educational).  I haven't  
gotten written confirmation, but that seems to be the current situation.  Oh  
yes, they said it would run on my '040 monochrome.

--
Ernest N. Prabhakar,            Caltech High Energy Physics
ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu            CaJUN President
"If we are out of our minds, it is for God." - II Cor 5:13a