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From: newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: 3D input
Message-ID: <1989Feb23.101443.12312@LTH.Se>
Date: 23 Feb 89 09:14:43 GMT
References: <39:doelz@urz.unibas.ch> <1989Feb21.094645.25612@LTH.Se> <27256@sgi.SGI.COM>
Reply-To: dag@Control.LTH.Se (Dag Bruck)
Organization: Dept. of Automatic Control, Lund Inst. of Technology, Sweden
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In article <27256@sgi.SGI.COM> jmb@patton.SGI.COM (Jim Barton) writes:
>In article <1989Feb21.094645.25612@LTH.Se>, newsuser@LTH.Se (LTH network news server) writes:
>>
>> Unfortunately, they were not interested, and would not release
>> source code of GL so we could do it ourselves.  Pity.
>
>Don't be too hard on us.  Unlike you, we can't just go out and decide to 
>sell these things on a moment's notice.  Consider what you, as a user and
>customer, need to see from us:

[ explanation deleted ]

>Considering the amount of work requried to OEM such a device, I believe that
>SGI moves quicker than most other computer manufactureres that I have seen.
>But we can't move mountains overnight.

I demonstrated the ball to Roger Allison (SGI/UK) on April 1st, 1987.
He also received a full set of documentation.

Let my quote his telex, dated April 13th, 1987:

	``I made a special request to Silicon Graphics, USA on your behalf
	for appropriate source to enable you to add in support for the
	sensor-ball to our graphics library.  Unfortunately, this request
	has been denied.  There is little interest in having an interface
	for this device on the 2400 system.''

I'm happy to hear that your interest for similar devices has increased over
time.  I would gratefully accept further information when it becomes
available.

I think I would have been less hard on you, had I received a detailed
explanation of your troubles marketing a new device in 1987.

Dag M Bruck


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