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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: NEXTSTEP User Release 3.2 Features Date: 31 Aug 1993 15:37:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 125 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <26099h$ja3@digifix.digifix.com> Hello, Recently I posted the NEXTSTEP Developer Release 3.2 features. Below are some of the features included in the NEXTSTEP User Release 3.2 scheduled for early-mid Fall, including: - Third party Boot Drivers support - Third party Sound Drivers support - 32 bit Color support - Enhanced Pentium support - Additional Graphic and Sound Drivers support - Bundled SoftPC demo included - Network Install - Startup and Shutdown Graphics mode - Configuration cleanup - Additional On-line help - and of course, Bug Fixes Conrad Geiger NeXT ________________________________________________________________ Features of NEXTSTEP Release 3.2 Suggested Retail Price: $795 Product Includes software on CD-ROM, Installation floppy disk, and hard-copy documentation such as Release 3 User's Guide, Installing and configuring NEXTSTEP Release 3 for Intel Processors, and Here's How. Upgrade Pricing: FREE to 3.1 customers who send in their registration BEFORE 10/31/93. $195 for all other existing "non-3.1" NEXTSTEP customers. Price is the same for Intel and NeXT Computer versions. Please note the upgrade package does not include the Release 3 User's Guide and Here's How. Release 3.2 Objectives: * Enhance support for the Intel platform * Continue to improve NEXTSTEP's quality * Bundled SoftPC demo Intel platform support enhancements: * Third-parties Boot Drivers support Release 3.2 has been enhanced to enable the dynamic loading of boot drivers for devices such as SCSI drives and CD-ROM drives. This feature will greatly increase the number of configurations NEXTSTEP can support. * Third-parties Sound Drivers support A new set of public API's has been added to the SoundKit to enable developers to develop sound drivers that can be dynamically loaded into NEXTSTEP at run time. * 32 bit Color support The WindowServer has been enhanced to support third-party 32 bit graphics drivers. * Enhanced Pentium support Release 3.2 has been enhanced to take advantage of the Pentium processor for better graphics performance. * Additional Graphic Drivers support The ATI Graphics Ultra Pro and S3 805 drivers have been enhanced to provide support for additional RAM DAC and resolutions. In addition, S3 928 support has been added to Release 3.2. * Additional Sound Drivers support Support for Compaq Business Audio, Microsoft Sound System, and Intel GX Professional on-board sound system has been added to Release 3.2. BUNDLED SoftPC DEMO * SoftPC A demo version of SoftPC will be bundled with Release 3.2. To unlock this demo version into a full working copy, users can simply call Insignia and purchase a license number to unlock it into a full working copy. NeXT has been working closely with Insignia to develop the best solution possible to run DOS/Windows applications under NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. In order to optimize the performance of SoftPC, NeXT has enhanced NEXTSTEP's window server to dramatically improve the performance of Microsoft Windows applications in a NEXTSTEP window while providing full cut/paste graphics and text integration with your NEXTSTEP applications. In addition SoftPC will support a full screen mode to allow DOS/Windows applications direct access to the PC's graphics system. Other NEXTSTEP Enhancements * Network Install To simplify the installation of NEXTSTEP for Intel processors at large sites, the core technology for network installation have been added to this Release. NeXT will ship some additional tools after 3.2 ships which will enable users and system administrators to install NEXTSTEP with a boot floppy and a network server. * Startup and Shutdown Graphics mode To improve the consistency of NEXTSTEP's "look and feel", the startup and shutdown of NEXTSTEP will be displayed with a graphical user interface. * Configuration cleanup The configuration application has been refined to improve "ease of use" and enhanced to support additional configurations. * Additional On-line help On-line help has been added to the Edit (in developer mode) and PrintManager application. * Bug fixing Over 500 bug fixes have been made based on customer feedback.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.