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From: dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu (Doug Boyce)
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Subject: Re: Renderman
Keywords: Renderman, NeXTdimension
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Date: 1 May 91 00:57:49 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.214014.6669@athena.mit.edu> portnoy@athena.mit.edu (Stephen L. Peters) writes:
:In article <22906@lanl.gov> bedney@lanl.gov (Bill Edney) writes:
::Alvy Ray Smith (one of the higher ups at Pixar) last week in Santa Fe at a  
::presentation he was giving. He said that Renderman (including NeXT's  
::"Interactive Renderman") were to be BUNDLED with 3.0. It seems to me that he  
::would know what he was talking about.
:
:Zowie!  I may have to hold off on any NeXT purchase I make, then :-)
:Any idea when 3.0 is going to come out (provided that this isn't just
:rumorware, of course)?  When when when when when?  [Sorry, the idea of
:Renderman makes me a little frothy.]

Besides the ohh's and ahhh's of this (even if it isn't true), wouldn't this
seriously increase the OS upgrade costs (licensing the program) for users
to go from 2.? to 3.0.


-- 
Doug Boyce    dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu

"Speedballs are interesting if you aren't the cannoneer doing the running."
"Where's that Lotto ticket, I want a NeXT NoW!"