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In article <1992Aug24.230635.19783@tessi.com>, chris@tessi.com (Chris
Lamb) writes:

[...]
> very, very late, why didn't NeXT offer the chip to existing ND owners
> and start building it onto ND boards as it intended to originally?  I
> bet even at this late date they could do the right and honorable
> thing: ship the chip and satisfy a lot of ticked off ND owners.
> 
[...]> 
> Of course, I recall hearing the rumor that the engineers at NeXT did
> finally get the C-Cube chip working, but management killed it for some
> reason - possibly something to do with NRW.  Anyone know for sure?
> Like the OD issue, this is one major blemish on NeXT's otherwise
> positive record.  I sure would like to see them Do The Right Thing -
> better late than never!
> 

We bought a NeXT with an ND board last year. We were supposed to get real-time 
JPEG with it. The chip is not around. What I really want is MPEG, so
maybe it was a good idea to kill it. But if they told us we would get
that capability eventually, they should fullfill their promise, one way
or the other. Am I going to get a fair upgrade to the 100 MIPS machine
able to do that in software due next year? After all the time that we've
been waiting maybe it should be free.

-- 
Fernando D. Mato Mira
Computer Graphics Lab
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
matomira@ligsg1.epfl.ch