garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) (02/21/91)
In article <e30oX1w163w@ersys.uucp> ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) writes: >smithw@hamblin.math.byu.edu (Dr. William V. Smith) writes: > [stuff deleted here] >> The NeXTdimension is *still* scheduled for March I hear. >> Several NeXT people told me this, so take it for what its worth. >> -Bill >> -- > >However, I heard it today from our campus rep (he tends to get things >right) that NeXT has a *major* problem with the Dimension board. The >C-Cube chip (real-time video compression) has a bug, and - doesn't >work!!! They're in a quandry as to whether to: Yes, this is apparently true. I saw a public NeXTdimension demo on Feb. 15 which didn't use the C-Cube chip because of the bug you mention. They did demo JPEG compression using the 040. It took about 9 seconds to compress a medium-sized image (I don't remember the exact dimensions) instead of the ~ 1/30 second that the C-Cube chip should (will?) offer. At least part of the real-time video capabilities do work though... they had a laser disk player attached to the NeXTdimension playing a space movie in a NeXTstep window in real-time. At the same time, Molecule.app was running an animation. I didn't notice any slowdown of either window. -- John Garnett University of Texas at Austin garnett@cs.utexas.edu Department of Computer Science Austin, Texas
randall@redfish (Dave Randall) (05/11/91)
Does anybody know if NeXTDimension is shipping yet?
melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (05/11/91)
In article <14837@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> randall@redfish (Dave Randall) writes:
Does anybody know if NeXTDimension is shipping yet?
I called NeXT today and they said that it would ship at the end of May.
-Mike