ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (09/22/88)
By 'sprite' I mean a provision for a graphical object which you can easily animate simply by changing two location in their object's 'position' register. I'd be happy to see this for X, but I don't know of anyone (except maybe Ardent?) who uses their extension mechanism, and I don't want to have to worry about shoving the extension code into the servers for each machine I run across. I'm a NeWS and Postscript neophyte. BTW, has anyone looked at porting NeWS to the TI 34020/FP chip combination? It seems like it should be a real screamer. Thanks. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)" -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)"
ken@gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) (09/29/88)
> >BTW, has anyone looked at porting NeWS to the TI 34020/FP chip combination? >It seems like it should be a real screamer. > > - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. >Internet: ralphw@ius2.cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412)268-{2847,3275} CMU-{BUGS,DARK} Yes, its been thought of. Yes, it will be done in one form or another. Yes, it will scream. Unfortunately, the 34020 in not availible yet. I don't have the announcement that I recieved from TI, but i think they were targeting Q1 '89. Look for boards for the Mac II and PC/AT around Summer '89. NeWS i could not guess on. Also...the boards will be pretty pricey for a while, as i have heard the target price is $500 each for the 34020 and the 34083. They hope that will drop an order of magnatude by 1990. ken seefried iii ...!{akgua, allegra, amd, harpo, hplabs, ken@gatech.edu inhp4, masscomp, rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, ccastks@gitvm1.bitnet unmvax, ut-ngp, ut-sally}!gatech!ken