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#Autodesk Confirms NT 3ds

    18-Feb-95 03:16:02
Fm: Jack Death 73361,2350
To: Yost Group 76702,413
"1) NT is not slow. If we didn't think we could make r5 faster under WinNT than r4 is under DOS, we wouldn't be doing it." Extremely good news to me! (the poor hobbyist 3D'er type) "2) MS has a special bundling deal for vendors to bundle NT with their products for folks who don't already have it. So, it looks like the extra $$ for the OS won't be much of an issue." Good news again, just wonder how much the overhead is… From what I understand you want to expand on the platforms 3DS runs on, what happened to the UNIX (X-windows, OSF/OPEN, Motif) idea? Just curious, since this would at least keep things REALLY open (and independent of MS bugs<g>) Now almost anybody could run it (besides proven software technology as a real basis, instead of the 3 or so NT platforms) Just curious about what made you ditch UNIX as an alternative. Jack (the never, ever, quitting questioning wonder-boy, (aka pain int the butt))