mcgough@WRDIS01.AF.MIL (Jeffrey B. McGough) (07/18/89)
In response to the NeWS ports for various machines that I
received. I am Sending out a summary...
I make no claim about the completeness or correctness of
this list...
Thanks for all of the info...
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Jeffrey B. McGough
WR-ALC UNIX Systems Administrator (mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil)
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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.bice@hbo.UUCP (Brent A. Bice) (04/10/90)
I've heard a dirty rumor that NeWS has been ported to the Amiga and/or the Atari. Is this true? I've been workin' ta find a machine that isn't as expensive as a SPARC that I could run NeWS on at home. I'd even be happy with a NeWS 1.1 port if it existed.... Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Brent Bice Applied Computing Systems 2075 Trinity Drive Suite Lower Level Los Alamos, NM 87544 (505) 662-3309 bice@atlantis.ees.anl.gov