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From: jimomura@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Omura)
Subject: Re: Publishers
Organization: Consultant, Toronto
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 01:58:33 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May22.015833.23035@lsuc.on.ca>
References: <1991May16.140706.26180@menudo.uh.edu> <5172@syma.sussex.ac.uk>

In article <5172@syma.sussex.ac.uk> grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas) writes:
>From article <1991May16.140706.26180@menudo.uh.edu>, by uace0@menudo.uh.edu (Michael B. Vederman):
>> 
>> If anyone wants to keep tabs or follow the creative forces that were once
>> Antic software, then buy AutoDesk software.  Many of the Atari greats from
>> Antic work there (Tom Hudson, Jim Kent, Gary Yost, etc...)
>> 
>> - mike
>
>Pardon my ignorance, but I don't know anything about AutoDesk software. 
>Assuming AutoDesk is a company, what do they produce?  (If it's a
>product, what is it?)
>
     Autodesk is, as far as I know, the biggest seller of CAD products
in the computer industry.  At least they have the largest number
of unit sales.  They dominate the MS-DOS world.  Their products
include AutoCAD, and now the Generic CAD line as well.  Of course,
if you *really* want to be on the cutting edge and the "top stuff"
in the industry, it's not really AutoCAD at all.  The top stuff
is all running on Silicon Graphics Iris Workstations.  That's what
the car manufacturers use (companies like GM, Volvo, I think Mercedes-Benz,
Honda too), Braun, and of course the major part of the 3D animation
production as well.  But that's digressing. . . .



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