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Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
`Net Milestone
Though I was quite interested to read the first installment of your "Graphics on the Internet" series on pg. 32 of the October 2000 issue, I did want to point out an additional and important milestone.
In 1985, Omnibus Computer Graphics became one of the first commercial organizations to utilize the Internet for its own business purposes, unrelated to the network function. (Other companies involved in the 'net infrastructure had probably used it for corporate purposes before this time.) Omnibus had three offices, located in Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York City, that were connected via NSFNet.
Each of these offices produced computer animation for film and advertising and had a very active R&D team. We used the Internet to transfer images, scripts, and code. Our R&D group was developing the PRISMS system and we relied heavily on email and FTP. We had a rather impressive nightly process that batch transferred, merged, and redistributed code from each of the three sites into a coherent baseline RCS. It was a great example of distributed development and collaboration. I am not aware of any earlier efforts that used such a distributed development process over the Internet, either for computer animation or any other ...
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