FOR Your Information -------------------- This information is from an internet mailing list. Forwarding this article in no way implies an endorsement or verification by Sun etc. etc. NeWS-makers is a moderdated mailing list maintained by Don Hopkins. -johnj -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vi tip-of-the-day. To make an 80 column line in vi, go into command mode and move to the desired location and then type 80a- That will append a dash (-) 80 times. Neat, huh ? -johnj -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 89 23:17:28 -0400 To: NeWS-makers@brillig.umd.edu Subject: NeWS ports From: sun!wrdis01.af.mil!mcgough (Jeffrey B. McGough) Sender: sun!brillig.umd.edu!NeWS-makers-request (Don Hopkins) In response to the NeWS ports for various machines that I received. I am Sending out a summary... I make no claim about the completeness or correctness of this list... Jeffrey B. McGough WR-ALC UNIX Systems Administrator (mcgough@wrdis01.af.mil) ------List Follows------ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NewScript, a NeWS interaction clone for MS/DOS by TAG inc. Technology Application Group inc. 10621 Bloomfield St., Suite 33 Los Alamitos, CA 90720 USA 213 430-9792 NewScript(tm) is a compact, high performance emulation of the NeWS, for 286 and 386 machines running DOS or OS/2(tm). NewScript offers an interactive user interface design environment for the development and prototyping of NeWS compatible graphical interfaces. Perfect for PostScript and NeWS class teaching! NewScript is based on the PostScript language as defined by Adobe Systems Inc. with Events, canvases, monitors, processes, and object PostScript extensions specified by NeWS. NewScript emulates a subset of NeWS and PostScript. CPS, network communications, and stroke fonts are not supported in version 1.0. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Non-Commercial Ports: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Columbia University Department of Computer Science 450 Computer Science Bldg. 500 W. 120th St. New York, NY 10027-6699 Contact: Chris Maio 212 854-2736 NeWS port to HP workstation model 9000, Series 300 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, New Mexico Contacts: Richard Phillips David Forslund 505 667-5061 NeWS port to a Cray Supercomputer, model XMP-24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- University of California at Santa Cruz Computer Science Dept. Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Contact: Al Conrad 408 429-2370 Ported NeWS 1.1 to the Integrated Solutions Inc., model V8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Other Ports: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TGV has ported X11/NeWS to a VAXstation(tm) 2000 running VMS. Productization and distribution arrangements are currently being addressed by Sun Microsystems and TGV. For information contact Steve Messino, Windows Licensing Manager, at 415 960-1300. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bundled Commercial Products: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silicon Graphics Computer Systems Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. P.O. Box 7311 Mountain View, CA 94039-7311 415 964-1459 NeWS 1.1 ships with all Silicon Graphics Workstations. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unbundled Commercial Products: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NeWS/2 for OS/2 by Architech 80 E. 11th St., Suite 222 New York, NY 10003 212 979-5337 NeWS is up and running on OS/2! Networking to other machines on your LAN Manager net is just like using your own machine now! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PNeWS for Sun VMEbus machines by Parallax 2500 Condensa St. Santa Clara, CA 95051 408 727-2220 PNeWS is a NeWS port extended to deal with live video! Using display systems from Parallax, any NTSC signal can be fed into a window on your Sun workstation, for display or digitizing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MacNews for A/UX on Apple Macintosh by Grasshopper Group 1996 Hayes St. San Francisco, CA 94117 To order: 408 266-4783 Technical Support: 415 668-5998 MacNews is a full NeWS port, running on Apples UNIX port with full Berkeley TCP/IP networking. MacNews Version 1.1.10 supports standard Macintosh color displays. Runs in 4 megabytes of RAM. Version 1.1.10 runs only on A/UX version 1.1, MacNews 1.1.01 runs only on A/UX 1.0. Shipped on floppies. Price: MacNews 1.1.10, $300. MacNews 1.1.01, $225. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NeWS for SunOS by Sun Microsystems Inc. I2550 Garcia Avenue, Mt. View, CA 94043 USA 415 960-1300 The original NeWS port is for Sun Workstations. It is available from Sun for $125, including the binaries on tape cartridge or reel-to-reel, NeWS manual and installation instructions, and the Adobe PostScript Reference Manual and tutorial.