From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Bay Area NeXT Group (January 26 Developer Special Interest Group meeting)
Date: 26 Jan 93 00:34:42 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com (Conrad Geiger)

BANG Developer SIG (Special Interest Group)

Topic: Competitive Analysis Panel - Mac, PC, Sun, SGI
Place: NeXT, 123 Saginaw Rd., Redwood City
Date: Tuesday, January 26th
Time: 7:00pm

The January Developer SIG will feature a panel discussing the
technology and markets of four other computer platforms: Macintosh,
PC (Windows, Windows NT), Sun, and Silicon Graphics. The panel will
feature Lee Sherman, Rick Reynolds, and Greg Holmberg. Lee is a
contributing editor for NeXTWORLD and Presentation Products whose
writing also regularly appears in New Media, EC&I, and InfoWorld.
Rick is the technology director for Publish magazine and a
contributing editor for NeXTWORLD. Greg is a developer/consultant in
the Sun market.

Here's a list of the potential topics. We may not get through all of
them but upon leaving people should have a pretty good understanding
of the current and future directions of some of NeXT's major
competitors.

Technology
-Hardware (microprocessors, MIPS, disk drive sizes, common types of
	storage, popularity of CD-ROMs)
-Network (networking solutions, bandwidths, email)
-System (operating system, interface, memory scheme, imaging model,
	support for multi-processors, file formats, database
	connectivity, add-ons i.e. 3-D graphics support, QuickTime,
	Unicode, etc.)
-Developer Tools (environments, languages, interface tools, kits,
	etc)

Applications
-Desktop Publishing
-Business Productivity
-Databases
-Special (GIS, 3-D modeling)
-Emulators

Markets/Users
-Custom markets
-Shrinkwrapped markets
-Distribution channels
-Popular Periodicals
-Business
-Scientific
-Education
-Home
-Other

Future Directions
-Objects
-Multimedia
-Interface
-Other

Members and non-members alike are welcome.
There is no charge to attend.

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BANG January Meeting

Special thanks to Eakins Open Systems (EOS) for providing an InFocus
7600WS, a color LCD projection panel, for use during the meeting.
EOS is located at 67 East Evelyn Ave., Mountain View, CA 94041.
415-969-5109  fax: 415-961-2130.

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BANG Calendar

Jan 26th - Tuesday
Developer SIG - Competitive Analysis Panel - Mac, PC, Sun, SGI
123 Saginaw, Redwood City, CA

Feb 17th - Wednesday
Monthly Meeting - Jayson Adams of Millennium showing Engage and
Notebook, Lighthouse Design showing Diagram 2.0
Terman Auditorium, Palo Alto, CA

Feb 23th - Tuesday
Developer SIG - Julie Zelenski
123 Saginaw, Redwood City, CA

Monthly meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Developer meetings are held on the 4th Tuesday of the month.

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BANG
P.O Box 1731
Palo Alto, CA  94302
info@bang.org
(415) 327-BANG

The Bay Area NeXT Group is an organization that provides a forum for
information exchange concerning the NeXT marketplace and computer
technology in general.

Contacts:
President: M Carling

Information: Janet Hufnagel
Membership: Andrew Creighton
Meetings: M Carling
Newsletter: Zac Beckman
Developer SIG: Ken Fromm
Auctions: Dan Lavin
CD-ROM: Rick Reynolds

All the above people can be reached by email directly or at
firstname_lastname@bang.org.

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Public Service Announcements
Below are announcements that members or others asked us to pass
along.


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All film output FREE if part of a printing project. PostScript
delivery next day, anywhere Federal Express goes.

For price quote, contact:

Daniel Wasserman
Light Printing Co., Inc.
101 Lafayette St.
New York NY 10013

Phone: 212-226-5003
Fax: 212-226-2777

NeXT mail:
uunet!lpmazda!dan
Internet:
LightPrinting@gun.com

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RE: Pro Lexis

If anyone in your group is in search of a French dictionary fully
interactive with WriteNow and WordPerfect on the NeXT, please let me
know.

The dictionary can also be consulted from most NeXT applications via
the service menu.

We can also help with French localization and/or translation.

Best regards,

 -Andre

Andre Lalonde
Edition Electronique Expovision inc.
53, rue McNider				
Outremont, Quebec	Phone: (514) 277-2712
CANADA  H2V 3X5		Fax:   (514) 277-3811

email: info%expovision@CAM.ORG (NeXT Mail)

" Pro Lexis is a Revolutionary Professional French Dictionary &
Spelling Checker for WriteNow and WordPerfect on the NeXT."
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