RAAS@APLVM.BITNET (Randy Schrickel) (04/22/89)
Could someone please give me a definitve answer on this? Is sgi going to release a 4sight/X windows/"something other than mex windowing system" for the 2400 Turbos? At Siggraph 88, sgi said no. At a local users group meeting (maybe a year ago) they said no. Now someone at work tells me sgi says yes! Does anyone know the truth? If the answer is yes, we would like to (memory) upgrade our systems while we still can, and before the new OS comes out. Thanx in advance. Randy Schrickel Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates TAD/TAB ms294 x42854") (04/22/89)
The last I heard was "Maybe" on 4Sight/X windows. We are getting more memory just in case. Besides the more memory will help us even if we don't get 4Sight/X. -- Brent L. Bates NASA-Langley Research Center M.S. 294 Hampton, Virginia 23665-5225 (804) 864-2854 E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero2.larc.nasa.gov
fsfacca@LERC08.NAS.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca) (04/24/89)
> Is sgi going to release a 4sight/X windows/"something other than mex > windowing system" for the 2400 Turbos? At Siggraph 88, sgi said no. > At a local users group meeting (maybe a year ago) they said no. Now > someone at work tells me sgi says yes! Does anyone know the truth? > If the answer is yes, we would like to (memory) upgrade our systems > while we still can, and before the new OS comes out. The answer I got was "these are mature products, we do not plan any further enhancements to the OS". This was about 3 months ago, so things in the Valley may have changed.. Tony Facca
msc@ramoth.SGI.COM (Mark Callow) (05/06/89)
In article <8904211549.aa07442@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, RAAS@APLVM.BITNET (Randy Schrickel) writes: > > Could someone please give me a definitve answer on this? > > Is sgi going to release a 4sight/X windows/"something other than mex > windowing system" for the 2400 Turbos? At Siggraph 88, sgi said no. > At a local users group meeting (maybe a year ago) they said no. Now > someone at work tells me sgi says yes! Does anyone know the truth? > If the answer is yes, we would like to (memory) upgrade our systems > while we still can, and before the new OS comes out. This is a touchy subject and I don't know how best to answer it. The facts are: 1. SGI has decided to provide its customers with a new software release for the 3xxx series machines. We (Engineering) have been told that this release is for bug fixes only. No new functionality is being allowed. 2. We have 4Sight (sans X) running on the 3xxx machines. It's now several versions behind the 4D. We made substantial kernel changes to support 4Sight but given #1, we have no way of putting those changes into a release. The kernel needed for 4Sight contains unrelated changes that require new versions of certain system tools. To make a release, we would have to bring 4Sight up-to-date and also extensively test the entire system to ensure none of the changes were detrimental. Frankly, my group just doesn't have the resources to support a release of the 3xxx version of 4Sight even if the company were planning a 3xxx release containing new functionality. -- -Mark