mg@repo.unipress (required by law) (10/21/88)
We will be holding another NeWS Special Interest Group meeting at the Sun User Group Conference in Miami. The exact time is not yet final; we'll announce it as soon as we know. The conference itself will be held December 4 to December 7. If there's something you'd like to talk about at the NeWS SIG, or if you have any interesting NeWS demos, or video tapes that you'd like to show, please RSVP to news-breakers@unipress.com or call Mark Krieger at (201) 985 8000. At present, our plans include the following: 1) C2PS C-to-PostScript compiler, presented by UniPress Software. 2) OS/2 NeWS, presented by Maurice Balick of Architec. 3) NDE overview, presented by Ralph Derrickson of Sun. 4) Question and answer session with NeWS developers. In particular, we are interested in matching those who have done NeWS ports and tools with those who are, or would like to be, using NeWS for real work. (We know of no existing forum for this sort of interaction.) Mike Gallaher UniPress Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the minutes from the last NeWS SIG held at SUG last December in San Jose. Meeting convened 10:30 a.m. Mark Krieger introduced himself and welcomed the group. Saul Wold (Sun) demonstrated the trader workstation he had written to run under NeWS. Hugh Daniel (Wedge) demonstrated Wedge's Macintosh NeWS port. Don Hopkins (U-Md) demonstrated pie menus, a PostScript terminal program, and a journaling demo he had created. Mike Gallaher (UniPress) discussed the NeWS version of UniPress Emacs, and NetScript, a communication protocol language/user interface toolkit that allows any library to be used as an interpretive network server, and which supports a portable user-interface toolkit on NeWS, SunView, and character terminals. Greg Cockroft and Marty Picco (Parallax) demonstrated pNeWS, a NeWS port with integrated live video, still video frame grabbing, and graphics over video. A lively question-and-answer period followed. Some questions were specific in marketing or technical nature, and were directly addressed to the many Sun NeWS people in attendance. Others were more philosophical "NeWS community" topics of general discussion; a great deal of conversation focused on what Sun is doing to battle it out with X Windows, and how the NeWS community can help in establishing NeWS as a recognized standard, supported by other vendors with the same commitment allotted to X. The meeting was concluded at approximately 12:00 noon with a short thank-you from Mark Krieger. An informal demo period followed, which ended at 12:30.