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From: ciemo@bananapc.SGI.COM (Dave Ciemiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: informal survey
Summary: NeWS count estimates for SGI platforms
Message-ID: <24438@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 7 Jan 89 01:53:36 GMT
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In article <8901051630.AA26515@brillig.umd.edu>, marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall) writes:
> 
> 	I would like to conduct an informal survey to find out
> how many people are using NeWS on a regular basis, and on what
> platforms. I am interested in how many people are using NeWS
> in your organization, and the manufacturer, model number and
> operating system of the platform which you run it on. If you
> would like to respond for your entire organization, please indicate
> this, so that I can watch for other members of your organization
> responding also.  I will summarize and post the results to the
> net in a few weeks.
> 

The Silicon Graphics IRIS-4D series runs 4Sight which based on NeWS
with extensions for Graphics Library canvases.  As of software release
4D1-3.0, 4Sight (NeWS+...) replaced mex as the windowing system for
the IRIS-4Ds thus almost all IRIS-4D users are 4Sight (NeWS) users.

Silicon Graphics just announce shipment of it's 1000th Personal Iris
(the 4D/20) so all their users are 4Sight (NeWS) users.

I've been told by marketing that I can say conservatively 3000 IRIS-4Ds
of the other varieties (4D/50/60/70/80/1xx/2xx) are in use.  Most but
not all of these IRIS-4Ds are running release 4D1-3.0 with 4Sight.  I don't
have any breakdown of the particular models or what percentage have not
upgraded to 4D1-3.0.

The IRIS-4D operating system is IRIX - AT&T System V rel 2 derived with BSD
extensions.  Other IRIX extensions include a multiprocessing kernel
and NFS (as an option).

So, I'd (unofficially) say, there are 3000-4000 IRIS-4D 4Sight (NeWS) users
out there.

Personally, I use 4Sight (NeWS) on a IRIS-4D/70GT.
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