From chemistry-request@ccl.net Fri Aug 30 00:06:56 1991 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 03:29:24 GMT From: jle@stardent.com (Joe Leonard) To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: ACS Notes Status: R Several events at ACS in New York this week... 1) Stardent announced a Chemistry Developer's Kit for AVS 3.0 2) MSI announced the ChemistryViewer for AVS (on the DEC, IBM, HP, SGI and Stardent machines). This code was shown in the DEC, MSI and Stardent booths. It's a small-molecule visualization at this time, but AVS is expandable, as you know. Oddly enough, (1) ties in with (2)... 3) MSI and Polygen merged 4) HP didn't show 5) Convex did show, demonstrating a C3200 and some really nice graphics and materials 6) VCH sold out of Lipkowitz and Boyd's Comp Chem review volumes I and II 7) There seems to be no truth to the rumor that Century 21 and Coldwell- Banker is behind the MSI/Polygen merger. Spokesmen from both companies also denied any involvement with the HP/Apollo as well as the Ardent/Stellar merger's in recent years... 8) San Fran should be a better organized show... 9) SGI filled several booths with IRIS Indigo's... Joe Leonard From chemistry-request@ccl.net Fri Aug 30 18:28:46 1991 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 18:14:52 EST From: "Mr. Mingzuo Shen" Subject: is GAMESS public available (free of charge I mean) To: chemistry@ccl.net Status: R Hello, Somehow I heard that the ab initio quantum chemistry program package GAMESS (developed by Dr. Martin F. Guest and others) was available free of charge. If this is true, I would appreciate any information for contacting the developers and method of retrieval. Even it is not free, more information would also be appreciated. Also, P. Sherwood has a program called DISPLAY (I am reading a technical report 1990/1991 from Daresbury Laboratory in England). I did not seem to read any mentioning of the X window system. If no X window, what else is there? Thanks in advance. mingzuo shen