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From: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Renderman on NeXT
Message-ID: <7D9614w164w@ersys.uucp>
Date: 29 Apr 91 15:18:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.171838.1889@dircon.co.uk>
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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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. Acording to 
> my source, it will run on all flavours of NeXT and will
> use the i860 on the dimension board to give real time shading!
> Also the jpeg chip cock up has been fixed - NeXT are making
> a daughter board containing a compression chip for the
> dimension board.
> Has anyone else heard about these issues??
> 
> Jonathan Tilley

 
No, but I'd be interested in hearing more. I understood the JPEG issue 
was dead, as NeXT had decided not to implement compression in hardware at 
all. 
As for Renderman, if it'll run on my mono 040, I want it!! Anybody else 
know anything about it?
 
-drin
 
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Adrian Smith             ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca
Edmonton Remote Systems:  Serving Northern Alberta since 1982