granteri@pnet51.cts.com (Grant Erickson) (08/04/89)
This has nothing to do with the Macintosh, but I thought it would be of
potential interest to some.
Taken from the Minneapolis StarTribune (Thursday, August 3, 1989)
COLOR IS NEXT
Next Inc., the computer company
started by Apple Computer's co-
founder Steven Jobs said his fu-
ture computers will use technology
that will display color images of
photographic quality. Jobs said the
color versions of the Next computer
will use Renderman, a software tech-
nology developed at Pixar Inc., a
San Rafael, Calif., computer graphics
compnay he also controls.
Grant Erickson
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!_________________________________________________________!minow@mountn.dec.com (Martin Minow) (08/06/89)
In article <820@orbit.UUCP> granteri@pnet51.cts.com (Grant Erickson) quotes
a NeXT press release that mentions their future color plans. At SIGGRAPH,
a NeXT spokesman stated that they plan only to support 32 (24?) bit color,
skipping over the more limited color-map formats.
Martin Minow
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