marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall) (01/06/89)
I would like to conduct an informal survey to find out how many people are using NeWS on a regular basis, and on what platforms. I am interested in how many people are using NeWS in your organization, and the manufacturer, model number and operating system of the platform which you run it on. If you would like to respond for your entire organization, please indicate this, so that I can watch for other members of your organization responding also. I will summarize and post the results to the net in a few weeks. Thanks in advance. Eric Marshall Software Productivity Consortium SPC Building 2214 Rock Hill Road Herndon, VA 22070 (703) 742-7237 CSNET: marshall@software.org ARPANET: marshall%software.org@relay.cs.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm just an X programmer gone straight.
ciemo@bananapc.SGI.COM (Dave Ciemiewicz) (01/07/89)
In article <8901051630.AA26515@brillig.umd.edu>, marshall@software.org (Eric Marshall) writes: > > I would like to conduct an informal survey to find out > how many people are using NeWS on a regular basis, and on what > platforms. I am interested in how many people are using NeWS > in your organization, and the manufacturer, model number and > operating system of the platform which you run it on. If you > would like to respond for your entire organization, please indicate > this, so that I can watch for other members of your organization > responding also. I will summarize and post the results to the > net in a few weeks. > The Silicon Graphics IRIS-4D series runs 4Sight which based on NeWS with extensions for Graphics Library canvases. As of software release 4D1-3.0, 4Sight (NeWS+...) replaced mex as the windowing system for the IRIS-4Ds thus almost all IRIS-4D users are 4Sight (NeWS) users. Silicon Graphics just announce shipment of it's 1000th Personal Iris (the 4D/20) so all their users are 4Sight (NeWS) users. I've been told by marketing that I can say conservatively 3000 IRIS-4Ds of the other varieties (4D/50/60/70/80/1xx/2xx) are in use. Most but not all of these IRIS-4Ds are running release 4D1-3.0 with 4Sight. I don't have any breakdown of the particular models or what percentage have not upgraded to 4D1-3.0. The IRIS-4D operating system is IRIX - AT&T System V rel 2 derived with BSD extensions. Other IRIX extensions include a multiprocessing kernel and NFS (as an option). So, I'd (unofficially) say, there are 3000-4000 IRIS-4D 4Sight (NeWS) users out there. Personally, I use 4Sight (NeWS) on a IRIS-4D/70GT. -- ciemo (pronounced SEE-MO) "Language is a virus" Ciemiewicz (pronounced SI-MI-WITZ) --- Laurie Anderson Dave (pronounced DAYV)