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From: rdm@cfcl.UUCP (Rich Morin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: SUG NeWS SIG Minutes
Summary: Another country heard from...
Message-ID: <314@cfcl.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 15:25:03 GMT
References: <8901091738.AA06229@erika.unipress.com>
Organization: Canta Forda Computer Laboratory, Pacifica, CA
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I feel that I must respond to Marilyn's analysis of my NeWS BOF presentation:

> Rich Morin stood up and went off on a SCSI tangent.  He was shushed by Saul
> Wold (Sun Micro ;=)

I was introduced at the BOF by Hugh Daniel, of Grasshopper Group.  This was
not accidental - I have been working closely with the Grasshopper Group for
the past several months.

Hugh and I share a vision of NeWS as a mechanism for controlling and linking
a wide variety of useful I/O devices.  My own contribution, /dev/scsi, allows
user-mode programs to talk to arbitrary SCSI devices.

We have already printed NeWS images on an Apple LaserWriter II SC, and have
also sent NeWS images successfully to a Mirus FilmPrinter.  Future software
will support the Apple Scanner and the General Computer Personal LaserPrinter.
We feel that this sort of I/O capability enhances the utility of NeWS and
empowers NeWS users.

I may not have been clear on the relationship between NeWS and /dev/scsi.  I
depended somewhat on the background information in Hugh's introduction, and
so the focus of my own presentation may not have been clear.  Certainly Saul
and Marilyn failed to see the connection.  Others probably did, as well.

In any event, my already short presentation (less than three minutes) was
indeed shortened further in response to Saul's remarks.  Persons wishing to
know more about /dev/scsi are invited to attend the planned BOF at Usenix in
San Diego.


P.S.	In contrast to the presentations made by UniPress and some other
	firms, my /dev/scsi presentation made no attempt to sell product.
	Indeed, /dev/scsi will be freely redistributable, since we would
	like it to be accepted as a standard.  ;-}
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