sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) (11/10/90)
I saw this in misc.jobs.offered and thought that it would be of interest here. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We have the following contracts available in the Palo Alto area: 1. X-windows server work which is likely to involve a marriage or merger of the X server with a window manager of another windowing system. You will be participating as a working software engineer but, as well, will be serving as a liasion/contact with an outside company who will require guidance and help in completing their work. You must have some solid X server experience 1-3 years and any other related experience is helpful ( such as X tool kit related although more systems internals would be most helpful). 2. The NeXT step Display Postscript Window Manager work will involve portint NeXT step to a new architecture. It is a RISC based architecture. If you have prior experience with a display postscript based product, solid C programming experience and general windowing background (such as with NeWS) that would help. Direct porting experience in another windowing environ would also be useful. Salary is negotiable. The work setting is on-site only or almost only, hours are somewhat flexible. You will need to be our employee during the course of the contract. The contract can run 18 months duration. If you feel you are qualified you can fax to our office: (415) 644-0291. We would suggest you fax after 6 pm California time as traffic drops off. Michael Sunday Sunday & Associates, Inc. 27 Greenbank Ave. Piedmont, CA 94611 (415) 644-0291 Please no resumes via the net. Call instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would anyone care to venture a guess what the new RISC based architecture might be? Sean Brunnock
daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity) (11/11/90)
In article <1436@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes: > I saw this in misc.jobs.offered... [lines deleted] > 2. The NeXT step Display Postscript Window Manager work will involve >portint NeXT step to a new architecture. It is a RISC based architecture. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Would anyone care to venture a guess what the new RISC based architecture >might be? > > Sean Brunnock Sure, I'll guess a Sparc-maker other than Sun (e.g., Solbourne). Sun has too much ego involvement with NeWS, Open Look, etc. NeXTStep on the Sparc architecture would be dynamite--the best software development environment on the most popular workstation line! It might turn NeXT into a software company, but that's not all bad. My second guess would be DEC using a MIPS RISC CPU. DEC insists they're only interested in standards, not NeXTStep, but they're bright enough to recognize that NeXTStep is a quantum improvement over X toolkits. My third guess would be IBM. Since they're having trouble getting the RS/6000 to work (flaky C compiler, NeXTStep 2.0 a ***LONG*** time from now) they could give NeXT the next generation RS/6000 chips (I would bet a minimum of 4 times faster than the current ones). Finally, whatever happened to Daewoo, who was reported in July to be working on a Leading Edge Next-compatible? Any other guesses? Or, better yet, anybody ***KNOW***? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Knowledge Systems Research Center uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher Texas A & M University BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS College Station, TX 77843-3112 CSNET: daugher%cs.tamu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Walter C. Daugherity) (11/11/90)
In article <1436@ul-cs.ulowell.edu> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes: > > I saw this in misc.jobs.offered... [lines deleted] > 2. The NeXT step Display Postscript Window Manager work will involve >portint NeXT step to a new architecture. It is a RISC based architecture. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Would anyone care to venture a guess what the new RISC based architecture >might be? > > Sean Brunnock Sure, I'll guess a Sparc-maker other than Sun (e.g., Solbourne). Sun has too much ego involvement with NeWS, Open Look, etc. NeXTStep on the Sparc architecture would be dynamite--the best software development environment on the most popular workstation line! It might turn NeXT into a software company, but that's not all bad. My second guess would be DEC using a MIPS RISC CPU. DEC insists they're only interested in standards, not NeXTStep, but they're bright enough to recognize that NeXTStep is a quantum improvement over X toolkits. My third guess would be IBM: they're having so much trouble getting the RS/6000 software to work (flaky C compiler, NeXTStep 2.0 who knows when), they might just give NeXT the next generation RS/6000 chips (which I would bet are at least 4 times faster than the present ones). And what ever happened to the Computerworld report in July that Daewoo was making a NeXT-compatible Leading Edge? Any other guesses? Or, better yet, anybody ***KNOW***? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Knowledge Systems Research Center uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher Texas A & M University BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS College Station, TX 77843-3112 CSNET: daugher%cs.tamu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ---Not an official document of Texas A&M--- -- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Texas A & M University uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher College Station, TX 77843-3112 BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) (11/11/90)
In article <> sbrunnoc@hawk.ulowell.edu (Sean Brunnock) writes: [ Description of a job announcement asking for somebody to work on porting NeXTstep to a RISC architecture. ] > > Would anyone care to venture a guess what the new RISC based architecture >might be? > > Sean Brunnock Heh. HEH. I'll give you one guess, and Scott McNeally won't like it a bit. - -John Osborn -osborn@cs.utexas.edu -(I don't work for NeXT, but wish I did.)