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To: J R KARY who wrote (24799)	5/13/1999 3:01:00 PM
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New SJ word "prosumer" ; Major new games announced for Mac at E3 Was SGI's Open 3D GL the necessary ingredient ? Need some parsing help of "prosumer" here: ---- " ''We really care about getting great games on the Mac,'' said Steve Jobs, Apple's interim CEO. ''And, with the strong success of our consumer iMacs and prosumer PowerMac G3s, we have a lot of game-hungry customers.'' The acceleration of game development for the Macintosh platform has been rapid in the last year with Apple's adoption of technologies important to gamers, such as fast ATI graphics accelerators and OpenGL 3D software... ...''Apple has surprised the gaming community with powerful hardware and software technologies that make multi-platform development of 3D games for the Mac simple and a lot more economical,'' said David Grenewetzki, president of Sierra On-Line. ''Supporting standards such as OpenGL, making good use of their own QuickTime, and building in powerful graphics cards into their systems motivates us to offer the best features of games like Half-Life to the Mac customer.'' " biz.yahoo.com To obtain news from 3 E show every 2 hours: ign.com "Prosumer G 3" ? What is that ... half pro and half consumer (like Big Foot hehehe) ... or is there another Pro coming ? Jim K.