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From: [e-mail] (John Foust)
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Subject: Re: Lightwave 4.0 Plug Ins...
Date: 27 Jan 1995 14:32:35 GMT
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In article <3g8lio$[e-mail]>, [e-mail] says:
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>I have heard little or nothing about the plug in specification for Lightwave 4.0
>could someone tell me how portable these plug ins will be ?  Will each
>plug in have to recompiled for each version of the software (Amiga, NT, etc) ?

Yes, the plug-ins are executable code.  You need to re-compile
for each environment.  For the PC, you need a ~$300 compiler.
For the SGI, it's about ~$1000.  For the Alpha, I think it's
"free" with Microsoft's ~$500 developer kit.  For the MIPS NT,
it's about a ~$1000 compiler.  Cross-development isn't cheap.

This doesn't even consider the cost of keeping each of these
machines, either - a bare-bones SGI is about $5000, Intel at least
$2500, MIPS at least $3000, Alpha about the same.

So will all plug-ins appear on all platforms?  I doubt it.
I'm sure they'll show up for the most popular platform first,
which will most likely be the Intel WinNT within three days
of the LW/Win release.