Ithaca Software, based in Alameda, California has releases new versions of its HOOPS Graphics System for the RS/6000, Microsoft Windows 3.0 and Apple Computer’s MacApp: HOOPS is used to build interactive two-dimensional and three-dimensional graphics applications for computer aided design, manufacturing and engineering, as well as mapping, scientific visualisation and general graphics; the new IBM version of HOOPS will support the RS/6000’s Motif and Silicon Graphics’ Graphics Library interfaces; the MS-Windows 3.0 version of HOOPS will be available in 80286 standard and 80386 extended modes; HOOPS Version 2.21 for Windows 3.0 and MacApp, as well as all other versions of HOOPS for personal computers and Apple Macintosh, is $2,100 per development licence; a development licence for the RS/6000 and for other workstation HOOPS costs $4,200.
