rbogen@dreams.EBay.Sun.COM (Richard Bogen) (04/13/90)
In response to bice@atlantis.ees.anl.gov asking about NeWS ports, here is a message that was sent to this alias some time back. As the author previous said: "I make no claim about the completeness or correctness of this list..." --- Lator, Satisfaction altogether Guaranteed by Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether... Jeffrey B. McGough WR-ALC UNIX Systems Administrator (mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil) ------List Follows------ NewScript, a NeWS interaction clone for MS/DOS by TAG inc. Technology Application Group inc. 10621 Bloomfield St., Suite 33 Los Alamitos, CA 90720 USA 213 430-9792 NewScript(tm) is a compact, high performance emulation of the NeWS, for 286 and 386 machines running DOS or OS/2(tm). NewScript offers an interactive user interface design environment for the development and prototyping of NeWS compatible graphical interfaces. Perfect for PostScript and NeWS class teaching! NewScript is based on the PostScript language as defined by Adobe Systems Inc. with Events, canvases, monitors, processes, and object PostScript extensions specified by NeWS. NewScript emulates a subset of NeWS and PostScript. CPS, network communications, and stroke fonts are not supported in version 1.0. Non-Commercial Ports: Columbia University Department of Computer Science 450 Computer Science Bldg. 500 W. 120th St. New York, NY 10027-6699 Contact: Chris Maio 212 854-2736 NeWS port to HP workstation model 9000, Series 300 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico Contacts: Richard Phillips David Forslund 505 667-5061 NeWS port to a Cray Supercomputer, model XMP-24 University of California at Santa Cruz Computer Science Dept. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Contact: Al Conrad 408 429-2370 Ported NeWS 1.1 to the Integrated Solutions Inc., model V8 Other Ports: TGV has ported X11/NeWS to a VAXstation(tm) 2000 running VMS. Productization and distribution arrangements are currently being addressed by Sun Microsystems and TGV. For information contact Steve Messino, Windows Licensing Manager, at 415 960-1300. Bundled Commercial Products: Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. P.O. Box 7311 Mountain View, CA 94039-7311 415 964-1459 NeWS 1.1 ships with all Silicon Graphics Workstations. Unbundled Commercial Products: NeWS/2 for OS/2 by Architech 80 E. 11th St., Suite 222 New York, NY 10003 212 979-5337 NeWS is up and running on OS/2! Networking to other machines on your LAN Manager net is just like using your own machine now! PNeWS for Sun VMEbus machines by Parallax 2500 Condensa St. Santa Clara, CA 95051 408 727-2220 PNeWS is a NeWS port extended to deal with live video! Using display systems from Parallax, any NTSC signal can be fed into a window on your Sun workstation, for display or digitizing. MacNews for A/UX on Apple Macintosh by Grasshopper Group 1996 Hayes St. San Francisco, CA 94117 To order: 408 266-4783 Technical Support: 415 668-5998 MacNews is a full NeWS port, running on Apples UNIX port with full Berkeley TCP/IP networking. MacNews Version 1.1.10 supports standard Macintosh color displays. Runs in 4 megabytes of RAM. Version 1.1.10 runs only on A/UX version 1.1, MacNews 1.1.01 runs only on A/UX 1.0. Shipped on floppies. Price: MacNews 1.1.10, $300. MacNews 1.1.01, $225. NeWS for SunOS by Sun Microsystems Inc. I2550 Garcia Avenue, Mt. View, CA 94043 USA 415 960-1300 The original NeWS port is for Sun Workstations. It is available >from Sun for $125, including the binaries on tape cartridge or reel-to-reel, NeWS manual and installation instructions, and the Adobe PostScript Reference Manual and tutorial. cd From susan@gotham.East Wed Sep 20 16:46:09 1989 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 89 18:19:46 EDT From: susan@gotham.East (Susan A. Bickford - NYC SE) To: openwindow-interest@Sun.COM, todd@sunbird.Central Subject: Re: PC/NeWS Status: R > Is there a PC based NeWS implementation out there? NeWScript NeWS on MS-DOS Technology Application Group Los Alamitos, CA (213) 430-9792 Up until about 5 months ago, I used to actively collect this stuff and maintain the list below. I'm not sure how uptodate it is. The comments are not mine - just yanked from various messages on the net. Susan ------------------------------------------ Silicon Graphics: NeWS (4Sight) SGI workstations Mountain View, CA Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. P.O. Box 7311 Mountain View, CA 94039-7311 415 964-1459 NeWS 1.1 ships with all Silicon Graphics Workstations. PNeWS Parallax Graphics: Video Windows via NeWS 2500 Condensa St. Santa Clara, CA 95051 (408) 727-2228 Architech: NeWS on OS/2 Sal Catudella, Anthony Flynn, Maurice Ballick NYC (212) 979-5337 MacNeWS Grasshopper Group: NeWS on a MacII, A/UX Hugh Daniel 1996 Hayes Street San Fransisco CA 94117 +1 408 266-4783 grasshopper@toad.com $225 Wedge Computer, Inc. NeWS on a MacII, Mac OS 2 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02154 (617)891-1313 Whitechapel Workstations: NeWS for Whitechapel Workstations London, England Acorn Computer: NeWS for Acorn Computers Cambridge, England Raster Technologies: NeWS for the GX4000 Westford, MA Ameristar Technologies: NeWS for the Amiga 2000 Long Island, NY Celerity: NeWS client-side for Celerity San Diego, CA Alliant: NeWS client-side for Alliant Littleton, MA Liason 42 Robert Esbury Unit 2 433 Miller Street Cammeray, New South Wales, 2062, Australia +61 612 922-7099 University of California at Santa Cruz Computer Science Dept. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Contact: Al Conrad 408 429-2370 Ported NeWS 1.1 to the Integrated Solutions Inc., model V8 NeWS on HP Chris Maio 212 584 2736 Columbia University Department of Computer Science 450 Computer Science Bldg. 500 W. 120th St. New York, NY 10027-6699 Cogent Research: NeWS on a Parallel Processor Beaverton, Oregon 97006-6998 Wm Leler 503-690-1450 NeWScript NeWS on MS-DOS Technology Application Group Los Alamitos, CA (213) 430-9792 Apollo NeWS: U of Michigan did a NeWS 1.0 port a while back. It performs quite well on mono systems (only on mono, actually). If you find yourself in a situation where demonstrating an apollo port would be of use (like in selling NeWS source), it's possible to get permission from U of M to show it. ------------------------------- The Grasshopper Group in San Francisco has a NeWS implementation for the mac. It is retailing for 225$ (I think - it is not too pricey). They have a booth at USENIX right now and it demos pretty nicely. ------------------------ Wedge Computer, Inc. 2 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02154 (617)891-1313 ---------------------------- MacNews fro the Grasshopper Group o Runs under A/UX 1.0 with A/UX supported monitors. A minimum of 4 megs of RAM and 5 Megs of disk is recommeded. o MacNews release 1.1.01 is $225(U.S.) direct from the Grasshopper Group. o Complete client source is included. o NeWS servers from Sun, Silicon Graphics, WhiteChapel Workstations and Acorn Computers work with MacNews. o To order call +1 408 266 4738 between 8am & 5pm PST or contact them via the net at grasshopper@toad.com ------------ There are three companies doing NeWS for Macintoshes today: Grasshopper Group Hugh Daniel 212 Clayton Street San Fransisco CA 94117 +1 408 266-4783 grasshopper@toad.com They do NeWS for A/UX on Macintosh. Some excerpts from their brouschure: * Works with NeWS servers from SUN, Silicon Graphics, Whitechapel, Acorn * OPENLook will run under NeWS * "Complete client source is, of course, included" * run under A/UX 1.0 with A/UX supported monitors. minimum 4MB RAM and 5MB disk is recommended. * $225 for release 1.1.01 extra machine on the same network $150 extra manual $25 Wedge Computer Dick Bonsai 2 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02154 +1 617 891-1313 They do NeWS for MacOS. I called them and they said they have "released" a beta-version with communicates with a SUN (yes it must be a SUN) via the seral line (no TCP/IP or netting so far). They are considering a TCP/IP version by the end of the year. The big release of the seral-line-version should be out by the end of this summer. Liason 42 Robert Esbury Australia +61 612 922-7099 Contact Rob Esbury, Liason 42, Unit 2, 433 Miller Street, Cammeray, New South Wales, 2062, Australia. They do NeWS for MacOS. Due to time differenses (+9h) I have not been able to reach them. maybe someone else on the net (in Australia!) could give it a try? ------------ a comment: I used to work for Wedge when they were porting NeWS to the Mac under MacOS. I'd say that the product is reasonable, but it's slow. This is mostly due to the Macintosh itself. Paricularly, if you wanted to read something off the local (Mac) disk. They did a multiplexor that simulates sockets across a serial line. Basically, a process on the Unix machine (it can be any 4.2 BSD machine, it does not have to be a Sun) accepts connections on a port and packetizes the data between the Macintosh and the client machine over the serial line. This works rather well with NeWS, since most of the time, the volume of data passed between client and server is not much. There is nothing in 'product' form yet, but White Pine Software (P.O. Box 1108 Amherst, N.H. 03031, 603-886-9050) has a prototype they are working on. It has the requirements you are looking for (although it runs only on a II currently, and uses Apples Ethertalk card, it could use other communication drivers, and may run on other machines if there is demand). Apple also has a server that runs under MacOS, but it is not an announced product, and may or may not be released. I saw a demo at Xhibition, but Apple wasn't free to discuss what was going to be done with it. ------------------------------ Cogent Research: NeWS on a Parallel Processor Beaverton, Oregon 97006-6998 Wm Leler 503-690-1450 We invited these folks down to a local graphics conference to show their version of NeWS, which has been adapted to run in a parallel processing environment. Their box is transputer based; they sell it, but the company is primarily geared toward research in parallel processing at this time. They're NeWS enthusiasts, although they don't have NeWS source yet. Wm has a couple of papers out on their NeWS implementation, and is currently doing some work on PostScript semantics for file systems and such. NUT: NeWS User Terminal Sun Microstems ESS group The fabled Atari port of NeWS has been redone as a prototype of a NeWS user terminal. It runs in about 4MB (they're trying to cut that) and over an RS323 line from 2400-19.2Kb. It performs acceptably; at low Baud rates it takes a while to transfer the ps code over to run. It's kind of fun to see things like CG3270 run on an Atari, though. They've done a 2 page scrollable display to get around resolution problems, and it works well. This isn't a product yet, and would not be competing with NeWS ports on existing machines (DOS, Mac, etc.). They will be showing it at Connectathon this week. Apollo NeWS: U of Michigan did a NeWS 1.0 port a while back. It performs quite well on mono systems (only on mono, actually). If you find yourself in a situation where demonstrating an apollo port would be of use (like in selling NeWS source), it's possible to get permission from U of M to show it. NeWS/2 for OS/2 by Architec +1 718 622 8577 FAX +1 718 622 9205 850 Carroll St., Brooklyn, New York 11215 USA NeWS is up and running on OS/2! Networking to other machines on your LAN Manager net is just like using your own machine now! Unfortunately OS/2 doesn't support TCP/IP yet, so it doesn't yet network to your Suns, Macs, etc. PNeWS for Sun VMEbus machines by Parallax +1 408 727 2228 PNeWS is a NeWS port extended to deal with live video! Using display systems from Parallax, any NTSC signal can be fed into a window on your Sun system, for display or digitizing. MacNews for A/UX on Apple Macintosh by Grasshopper Group <tech@toad.com> <...!{uunet, sun, apple}!hoptoad!tech> Orders: +1 408 266 4783 Tech: +1 415 668 5998 1996 Hayes St., San Francisco CA 94117 USA MacNews is a full NeWS port, running on Apple's Unix port with full Berkeley TCP/IP networking. MacNews Version 1.1.10 supports standard (reasonable) Macintosh color displays. Runs in 4 megs of RAM, works best with more RAM, of course! Version 1.1.10 runs only on A/UX version 1.1, MacNews 1.1.01 runs only on A/UX 1.0. Shipped on floppies. Price: MacNews 1.1.10, $300 US. MacNews 1.1.01, $225 USA NeWS for SunOS by Sun Microsystems +1 415 960 1300 Inquiries: 2550 Garcia Avenue, Mt. View, CA 94043 USA Orders: call your local Sun sales office The original NeWS port is for Sun Workstations. It is available from Sun for $100, including the binaries on tape (cartridge or reel-to-reel), NeWS manual and installation instructions, and the Adobe PostScript reference manual and tutorial. An outstanding value for $100! NewScript, a NeWS interaction clone for MS/DOS by TAG inc. Technology Application Group inc. +1 213 430 9792 FAX +1 714 995 7980 10621 Bloomfield Street, Suite 33 Los Alamitos, California 90720 USA NewScript(tm) is a compact, high performance emulation of the NeWS window system, for 286 and 386 machines running DOS or OS/2(tm). NewScript offers an interactive user interface design environment for the development and prototyping of NeWS compatible graphical interfaces. Perfect for PostScript and NeWS class teaching! NewScript is based on the PostScript(R) language as defined by Adobe Systems Inc. with Events, Canvases, Monitors, Processes, and Object PostScript extensions specified by NeWS. NewScript emulates a subset of NeWS and PostScript. CPS, network communications, and stroke fonts are not supported in version 1.0. Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico Contacts: Richard Phillips David Forslund 505 667-5061 NeWS port to a Cray Supercomputer, model XMP-24 NeWS related Products for MacNews -------------------------------------------- softquad Publishing Software -- Product Summary +1 800 387 2777, +1 416 963 8337 SoftQuad Inc., 720 Spadina Avenue,Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2T9 Device-independent text and graphic processing for laserprinters, typesetters, and impact printers. Powerful and flexible, SoftQuad Publishing Software is a high performance derivation of AT&T's Documenter's Workbench, complete with troff, eqn, tbl, pic and grap processors for text, equations, tables, graphics and graphs. SoftQuad Publishing Software is a cost-effective solution for most publishing and in-house publishing tasks: manuals, reports, books, proposals, price lists, newsletters, and memos. The software provides the tools to simply and methodically create macro formatting packages to produce typeset quality output, taking full advantage of the capabilities of all popular printing devices for those users who have neither the time nor the expertise to painstakingly design each page. Because of its heritage as a true building-block program within UNIX, SoftQuad Publishing Software can format and print text files from any source, including word processor, database and spreadsheet applications. It can run alone or invisibly, behind other applications, to create fine quality, reproducible laserprinter output or inexpensive proofs which emulate the line and page breaks of high-cost typeset galleys. Features include typeface and point size changes, justification, centering, hyphenation, page and section numbering, multiple columns, proper character fit (kerning) and user definable hyphenation exception dictionary. Newly added features include bitmap inclusion, white lettering on dark background, and landscape printing. Detailed, readable manuals are included. Screen previewers for NeWS and X-windows are also available for a variety of machines. SoftQuad Publishing Software is available for virtually all UNIX and MS-DOS computers, including, of course, the Apple Macintosh II and IIX running A/UX. PostScript Clip Art Images from 3G Graphics +1 800 456 0234 +1 206 823 8198 11410 N.E. 124th St., Suite 6155 Kirkland, Washinton 98034 USA 3G sells a growing line of over 200 pieces of PostScript Clip Art Images. These images come on MacOS floppies that can be read with the A/UX 'hfx' toolbox utility into AppleDouble format files. The data fork of the AppleDouble file (you can throw away the half that starts with a %) can be previewed with 'paper'. 3G has graciously provided some sample images; they are viewable under the Demos => Previewer => Paper menu in MacNews 1.1.10.