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From: bedney@lanl.gov (Bill Edney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Renderman on the NeXT
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Date: 2 May 91 17:01:58 GMT
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To All -
OK, folks, here's the current scoop (which made me feel like a stoop). I just  
talked to a Lola Gill at Pixar (415-215-3480). Pixar will be releasing  
Renderman for the NeXT in June. It is with extreme disappointment that I must  
tell you all that, contrary to my previous messages, Renderman will NOT be  
bundled with OS 3.0 (at least for the time being). It will cost $2500 from  
Pixar. The only bright side to this is that if you have a NeXTdimension board,  
the i860 will indeed be able to shade in real-time (in what is to be called  
Interactive Renderman). I thought that bundling it would sell a LOT of NeXT  
machines, but I guess Steve decided differently.

Down and out (another $2500) in Los Alamos

- Bill Edney
- Los Alamos National Laboratory

"I don't speak for my employer and they don't speak for me. Kind of a nice  
arrangement."