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From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
Subject: Re: MATLAB (the missing piece)
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:38:00 GMT
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>I'm going to have to disagree on the contention, "Personally, I think  
>that  
>considering the size of the NeXT market, we should be thankful that  
>MATLAB  
>will be ported to the NeXT at all." If it is cost-effective for Maple,  
>Mathematica, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Improv, etc. to be ported to  
>NeXTstep, it should be cost-effective for MATLAB or MATRIXx to be ported.  
>NeXT IS losing sales because of the absence of numerical analysis tools.

I'll explain myself a little more clearly:  We are fortunate that the NeXT  
market is large enough that it is profitable for the Math Works, Inc. to  
port their product to the NeXT.  Although I, too, wish that there were  
more software packages available for our superior architecture, it is  
silly to blaim the software vendors for refusing do something they _know_  
will lose money:

Just because there is a Kroger a block from your house doesn't mean that  
it would be profitable for a Food World (or even a mini-mart) to be built  
across the street from it.  If you want a plethora of services at your  
door, either move to the heart of a big city, or encourage others to move  
into your neighborhood creating a larger market.

If you want to see more NeXT applications, do not yell at the vendors.   
They are the little guys in the picture.  The only entity with the power  
to manipulate the economic reality is NeXT itself.  It can draw more  
software vendors to the NeXT if it can create a larger installed base.   
The fastest way to do that is to port NeXTstep to existing machines and  
sell the software to the people who already own fast machines, if this is  
possible.  That way NeXT can offer them a huge added value to the buyer's  
machine for relatively low cost if NeXTstep is as superior as we think it  
is.  The questions are now: can NeXT do this profitably?

>I may be out to lunch--but I'm STILL pissed off!

That is, indeed, understandable.

--Glenn Brown
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From: rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis)
Subject: DSP problem
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 00:23:54 GMT

I'm having some problems with my DSP, (I've got a Monochrome Turbo station  
running 2.2) it seems that none of my applications can open the DSP (IE   
Scoreplayer, soundplayer, lip service etc).  I have tried rebooting and  
powering off, but the problem persists.  At startup I'm still getting the  
test sound so I don't believe that it is a hardware problem.  It acts as  
if it thinks an app has allocated the DSP and not released it. I've tried  
using the Bug56.app to reset the DSP but that doesn't seem to help.   Does  
anyone have any suggestions as to how I can convince the system that the  
DSP is not in use?

Thanks in advance.

Rickf@leland.stanford.edu
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From: rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis)
Subject: Re: DSP problem
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 18:39:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.114140.15753@u.washington.edu>  
zeno@phylo.genetics.washington.edu (Sean Lamont) writes:
> In article <1992Nov8.002354.14487@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
rick@indeed.stanford.edu (Rick Stanley Francis) writes:
> >I'm having some problems with my DSP,
> >powering off, but the problem persists.  At startup I'm still getting  
the  
> >test sound so I don't believe that it is a hardware problem.  
> 
> remember that 16-bit linear 44.1 KHZ stereo soundfiles don't use
> the DSP.

Yes, however I was able to run the DSP examples (ie have the DSP add two  
numbers) which talk to the DSP directly.  However, anything that uses the  
sound kit won't work.   Oddly enough the preferences for sound has the  
sound mute box checked (and it will not uncheck it).  I'm wondering if  
this could have anything to do with the fact that I used the 3.0  
UpgratePrep (I believe that it pathes the kernal to allow one to deal with  
a unix file system on a CD ROM), but I haven't installed 3.0 yet.


rickf@leland.stanford.edu
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: RenderMan-High resolution rendering?
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:19:55 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <1992Nov12.050629.26616@news.media.mit.edu> wave@waits.media.mit.edu  
(Michael B. Johnson) writes:
> Here's where you could change the resolution of your image from, say, 256x128  
> to whatever you'd like (2048x2048?).  

Yeah, like most people have a use for a square print.  I'd
try something like 2048 x 1536 or 4K x 3K.

But from reading his posting, I was wondering whether
this works.  I haven't tried to prman anything bigger than
the NeXT screen.  Does it crap out at high resolutions? 
qrman sure crashes a lot. 

> Also realize that PhotoCD is takes an analog image (film) and puts it in a  
> digital form (5 varying resolution images on a CD-ROM).  This is the opposite  
> of what you're talking about doing, which is taking digital imagery and  
putting  
> it to an analog form.  Kodak has yet to address this with PhotoCD (other than  
> to say you could go to a photofinishing store and specify your reprints  
there).

The highest Photo-CD res I've heard is 4K x 3K.  If you could
write your image digitally to a Photo-CD, that'd be quite
convenient.  You'd then be able to do whatever Kodak comes
up with with your image.  

> Charlie - supress the urge to do things at 400dpi, unless you are doing  
things  
> that are only an inch or two wide.  For rendering, think in pixels, not dpi.   

I disagree.  You should take the requirements of your
print into account.  I think Photo-CD aims way too low for
big things like magazine covers- and certainly for
posters.

On the other hand. I think people often overestimate the
resolution they need.  I've seen things produced for NTSC
used in print and as slides and they looked great.  It
depends a lot on sampling and viewing conditions.

Your best bet, of course, is to experiment.  Anybody who
prints things will tell you there's nothing like seeing
it in print to tell you what it'll look like in print.  Same
goes for film, video, whatever.  If you can do a test print
(once you find a service), you'll learn more from that
than speculating.

ab
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From: hfp@macadam.com (Hal Fox-Palmer)
Subject: Re: Mac Powerbook Connectivity
Organization: MACadam - NeXT Related Sales and Support
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:51:34 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.132630.25403@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>  
jfreem@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Joe Freeman) writes:
> In article <6773@news.duke.edu> dblakele@hercules.acpub.duke.edu writes:
> >Greetings,
> >
> >170 on loan from the project office to review Medline abstracts.  Now,
> >somebody here at Duke was spreading rumors that they had successfully
> >hooked a Mac PowerBook up to their NeXT.  That sounds intriguing, since
> >I've got a copy of Executor (a nod to all the nice folks at ARDI,  
especially
> >Cliff Matthews).
> >
> Several of the Powerbook models have the abillity to appeare as
> a Mac Disk drive (100, 160, 180 and Duos spring to mind).  You
> should be able to plug one of those units into a power'd down
> NeXT.  The Powerbook will show up as a Mac hard drive in the 
> workspace when you power up and log back in.  I know of at
> least one person that does this on a regular basis.
> 
> I don't think the 140, or 170 has this capabillity.
> 
Here is the trick on docking PowerBook 140's & 170's:
1st. you have to change the SCSI ID on the internal HD (small jumpers) use  
an ID that is not being used on your NeXT
2nd. hook up the PB to NeXT with appropriate SCSI cables.
3rd. you put the PB in sad mac mode by booting and then engaging the  
programers switch (the little hole in the back) I use a paper clip.
4th. boot the NeXT. Your PowerBook HD should show right up.

Hal Fox-Palmer / MACadam Computers
hfp@macadam.com
From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Checksum software
Keywords: checksum software
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:05:23 GMT
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.

In article <lfj225INN675@ai.cs.utexas.edu> yu@cs.utexas.edu (Yeong-Ho Yu) writes:
>Several months ago, there was a mention on a public domain software which
>calculates some type of checksum of a file.  I believe it was included
>in the distribution of another software which required a root privilege to
>install.
>
>If somebody remembers it, please let me know its name  and where
>I can get it.


there's always the unix 'sum' command.  If you really, really have to
know if the data has been changed, I have a object that I wrote that
calculates the MD5 of an NXStream.  MD5 is "Message-Digest 5."  It's a
128-bit message-digest algorithm from the good folks (ha) at RSA Data
Security.  It's public domain, but I think if you use in your software
you have to put something like "MD5 From RSA Data Security" on the
info-panel...

If anyone is interested, I'll clean up the code a bit and either mail
it to you or put it on sonata (if enough people want it...).


andrew
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andrew@cubetech.com     | "Carpe Nocturn - I get more work done after
Andrew Loewenstern      |  2 a.m. than most people do all day."
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From: daj@ccrma.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: DSP problems
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 02:32:59 GMT

This is a known problem.  NeXT should fix it.  The only sure work-around is to  
reboot.  

In article <1cqk2rINN804@aludra.usc.edu> strickla@usc.edu (Bryan Strickland)  
writes:
> Recently, the DSP chip in my NeXTStation seems to be having problems. Any
> Application that tries to use it returns a Error message 'Could not open
> DSP' or something of that nature.  Does anyone know any diagnostics to
> attempt to try to figure out the problem? Anyone else had problems of this
> nature? Known problems? thanks.
> 
> Bryan
From: rcbaab@rwa.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: PostScript archiving on NeXT
Keywords: PostScript, archiving
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:48:04 GMT
Reply-To: rcbaab@urc.tue.nl

Some time ago somone form Germany posted an article about a German newspaper
who archived their newspaper (in PostScript format) via NeXT and a server.
Can someone tell me more about this, I have lost this information and we
can help a company with this system.
Thanks very much in advance!

Annard
-- 
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From: stukas@mbolo.cc.nd.edu (Jim Stukas)
Subject: Re: ARG.  Crossposting is a pain!!!
Reply-To: stukas@mbolo.cc.nd.edu (Jim Stukas)
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:24:59 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.174622.9216@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>  
sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
[post on why cross-posting is bad... bad (said a la GHWB) deleted]

Sherwood,
   and others who feel this way...  I use NG myself, and I too am annoyed by  
cross-posts, but I disagree.  Someone, someday, must simply fix NG or create  
something better.  We are not, nor should we, ever going to eliminate  
cross-posting.  They have their purpose.
    That said, do think before you cross post.  Sometimes it is quite  
unnecessary.
    I hope that clears it up for everybody. :-)
--
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From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Choosing csn.announce moderator
Date: 6 Nov 92 12:46:27 GMT
Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc.

In article <1992Nov5.181501.4624@news.nd.edu> stukas@mbolo.cc.nd.edu (Jim Stukas) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.035738.27674@cs.yale.edu> nathan@laplace.csb.yale.edu  
>(Nathan F. Janette) writes:
>> It's already been done, so quit flaming about it, folks.
>> 
>> I've chosen Andrew Loewenstern to take over as my
>> co-moderator, so to hell with your consensus ;-)
> ... rest of post deleted ...
>
>  Great.  I don't give a flying f*** about the consensus, but let's see some  
>announcements now in c.s.n.a!

I agree!  I've already posted all of the submissions I have recieved
thusfar (one).  So send 'em on in!

announce@cubetech.com is the address.


andrew
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andrew@cubetech.com     | "Carpe Nocturn - I get more work done after
Andrew Loewenstern      |  2 a.m. than most people do all day."
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From: eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz)
Subject: Does this exist?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:08:06 GMT

I'm looking for an app to do the following:
Design a 3-D object such as a cylinder, sphere, etc.
Attach an image (TIFF, PCX, eps whatever) to the surface(s) of the
3-D object.
Rotate/manipulate the object in 'realtime' with the graphics attached.

I'm also intereted in making 4-D objects (x,y,z,color) in the shapes
of cylinders etc., and then manipulating them.

The purpose?
Presentation of experimental scan data to persons unfamiliar with more
conventional presentations.

Thanks in advance,
Eric S. Boltz
NIST

employer disclaimers apply

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From: gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown)
Subject: Answer to "Mac-to-NeXT sound converter. Where?"
Organization: J. Random Misconfigured Site
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:27:08 GMT
X-Posted-From: raven.ctr.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

Try sonata.cc.purdue.edu's
/pub/next/2.0-release/binaries/mac2snd.tar.Z

--Glenn
From: gstecker@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Chris Stecker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: New SUN's, Bad news for NeXT?
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:40:07 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

It seems to me that Sun's entry into low-cost desktop machines may certainly
speell doom for NeXT hardware.  IMHO, when NeXTstep gets ported to SPARC,
there really won't be much of a reason to buy a real NeXT.  At $10000 SRP
($7330 here at the UCSD bookstore), a 19color,16/424 SPARCstation LX offers
acceptable graphics capability (GXplus only, though, and not apparently up-
gradeable to 24 bit/#D solids) for NeXTStep, for less than a NSTC 16/400. 
The advantages with the sun being expandability, speed, etc.  The stats may
not tell the whole truth, but I think that there is a difference between the
Sun's 59 MIPS and the 25 MIPS of the NSTC.  The only thing lacking from 
these new Suns is an OS that's worth as much as the CD-ROM it's published
on :-)  I figure that by the time NeXT ports to SPARC (they'll probably be
taking their own sweet time :-), my NSC will be obsolete anyway, and I'll
have to buy a Sun.  

If NeXT pushes their software the right way, (first to PC owners, then to
Sun owners--and especially new Sun owners, who buy these new desktop machines,
and then to buyers of Taligent/PowerPC machines, as an intaligent:) OS option)
they could wind up with the default OS of the NeXT decade.  

Like Case, in Gibson's Neuromancer, who must transcend the "meat" existence
of his body and exist only in the information paradise of the net, the NeXT
needs to transcend its hardware-bound existence, and live as a pure, un-
compromised operating system.  (Forgive the Lit-Crit analysis, it's just I've
been writing these papers...:-)

Chris Stecker						gstecker@ucsd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Telecommuters, Remote Workers
From: 9138827a@levels.unisa.edu.au
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:16:09 +1030
Organization: University of South Australia

This item has been cross-posted to comp.sys.next.hardware
=====================================================================

I am undertaking postgraduate study at the School of Library and
Information Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, on
the particular information needs of telecommuters - those who perform
job-related work at a site away from an organisation and communicate
electronically rather than commuting physically.
 
I would be very interested in, and would greatly appreciate a response
from those who are telecommuters, to the following questions. If you
are not a telecommuter but know of others who are it would be
appreciated if you could pass this on to them:
 
 
Q1      Does the organisation to which you telecommute provide any
        library and information services which are accessible to you
        online? (eg catalogs, reference assistance, databases, literature
        searches, document delivery services, organisation information
        such as daily bulletins and administrative gazettes.)
 
        If yes:
 
        (a) What services are provided?
        (b) How useful are these services to you?
 
Q2      (a)     What is the nature of the organisation to which you
                telecommute?
 
        (b)     If you sometimes commute physically to your organisation,
                how frequently do you do this?
 
Q3      What are the particular information needs that you have as a
        telecommuter?
 
Q4      What basic information services do you consider should be
        provided by an organisation for its telecommuters? (see Q5 for
        additional and desirable services)
 
Q5      What additional information services would you perceive as being
        highly desirable for an organisation to provide for its
        telecommuters?
 
Q6      Are there any further comments you wish to make regarding the
        information needs of telecommuters?
 
Q7      Would you like a summary of the results of this survey E-mailed
        to you?
 
Respondents can be assured that individuals and organisations will not
be identified in any report or summary of this survey.
 
Please E-mail your response to my Internet address:
 
9138827a@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au
 
Thank you for your cooperation
 
Bronwen Strong   

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From: jim@ljkiraly.lerc.nasa.gov (L J "Jim" Kiraly)
Subject: NeXT's Object Oriented Database
Organization: NASA/LeRC
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:43:58 GMT

A while back there were some posts about NeXT licensing an object oriented  
database that would likely figure in future operating system releases.  Does  
anyone recall the specific OODB and vendor that NeXT licensed??

--
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From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: VirtSpace v2.6 is now available
Date: 8 Nov 92 20:10:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxEyq6.G7p
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

Jake Rose writes
> I hesitate to point this out, but autoscrolling has been built into
> AmigaDOS since 2.0 came out three years ago.

Actually there have been apps on the Amiga that have been autoscrolling before  
that.  However, I think the use of the term is not to imply that Pinnacle  
Research came out with the idea and their product is the first to use it on any  
platform, but instead to say that no other product on the NeXT has used it, and  
therefore, VirtSpace v2.6 is the first to do so.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Subject: Re: Amiga / Mac and NeXTStep..
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:41:25 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.210118.12604@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)  
writes:
> 	A final word about piracy--If piracy is a legitimate
> 	fear, then the single most dangerous platform would be
> 	the PC.  I _have_ seen BBS's with copies of various
> 	UNIX clones (>40megs compressed) online.  PC pirates
> 	get together regularly to swap software, normally
> 	bringing their machines (or  copies on tape backup).  

Uh, not all of them are illegitimate.  Our favorite site
nova, for instance, has a (currently :-) ) legit UN*X for
486 machines.  I won't deny that piracy is immense in the
PClone market, but with free BSD stuff, I doubt UNIX is a
big part of it.

I do think that NeXTstep '486 will be widely stolen,
however.  The price is too high for the street level users I
know.  They're into PClones because they're cheap- even
more so than I'm into the Amiga for that reason.

And as a long time NeXT and Amiga user, I'd love to have
NeXTstep on my '040 Amiga at home.

ab
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
From: roettig@ifi.unizh.ch (Thomas Roettig)
Subject: The Electronic AppWrapper
Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:04:31 GMT

I somehow lost the email address of Richard Carey of Paget to ask him directly.
Can somebody send it to me please?
Did anybody get The Electronic AppWrapper yet?
--

Gruss 
Tom
_____________________________________
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thomas@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch
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From: bruce@pages.com(Bruce Henderson)
Subject: Re: New RISC chip?
Organization: Banzai Research Institute
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:13:38 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.115521.3737@cubetech.com> andrew@cubetech.com writes:
>>some new RISC chip: the IMS3250 which is supposed to run at 100 Mhz, 90 Mips,
>>and be able to emulate both a 486@25Mhz and a 68040@30Mhz.  Here's the
>>
>>Umm... this ISN'T the same chip going in the PowerPC/Pink thingy between 
>>Apple/IBM, right?  I can see the 486 emulation, but for the 68040  
>>emulation... wow...
> Yeah, someone mentioned this to me at the last hAng meeting.  Now, I'm
> no processor architecture wiz, but it sounds like complete B.S. to me.
> 


No.  It is for real.  I have specs and docs on that chip, I have had a hands on  
live demo of it running the Mac OS. It is for real.  I wanted NeXT to talk to  
them, but they (NeXT) has there hands full at the moment.  This chip can do all  
of this because it has loadable microcode.  So you write microcode that  
emulates the 486 instruction set, or the SPARC instruction set... You name it.

This thing is very nifty

Bruce
From: ifbb657@cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Password file
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:28:47 GMT

Is the NeXT Password file shadowed, or can anybody who logs on/ftps/
telnets onto your system obtain the password file so they can
run crack on it and find more ways to break in?

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            Please, no NeXTMail at this time.
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