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- 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)
- Message-ID: <6362@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 00:34:42 GMT
- Sender: news@NeXT.COM
- Reply-To: user_groups@next.com (Conrad Geiger)
- Lines: 176
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- 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.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________
-
- 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.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________
-
- 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.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________
-
-
- 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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- _____________________________________________________________________
-
-
- RE: Pro Lexis
-
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-
- The dictionary can also be consulted from most NeXT applications via
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-
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-
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-
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-
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