Re: [Update REQ 5281]: http://www.geom.umn.edu/apps/cyberview3d/about.html

["Paul Burchard" <burchard at geom>]

Pierre Jolivet <jolivet at midir.ucd.ie> writes:
> I am the system administrator on a PowerMac 8100 running
> the latest version of MacHTTP, can I expect to see your
> Cyberview 3D Document Generator implemented for this server?

While the PowerPC is a nice fast chip, there are significant hurdles  
to be cleared before Cyberview can work with MacOS.  For example:

* To my knowledge, the Geometry Center's MinneGraphics rendering  
engine doesn't yet have any hooks to deal with the "cooperative  
multitasking" of MacOS.  Cooperation during rendering would be  
especially important in an HTTP server, of course.

* Cyberview relies on the GNU C compiler, so that's a problem until  
GNU and Apple can make up their philosophical differences.   
(Cyberview uses the Objective-C object-oriented extensions to ANSI C  
in an essential way.)

The Geometry Center is actively working to expand its base of  
supported platforms, but it seems most likely that the first non-UNIX  
platform able to support Cyberview will be Windows NT.

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