Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
IDL has already been released for the PC, for how much I don not know. I am told that it runs pretty fast! stephen S
The price I've seen for PC-IDL is $1500.00 . Yes I said one thousand five hundred american dollars! That is for a beta test version for windows with a copy of the first "official" release when it becomes available. I've seen it run and it is pleasingly fast on a 33MHz 386. I do not think it is going to get a wide market share at that price however. There are enough die hard IDLers out there like myself who will buy it though, and I'm sure after a few hundred of us pay the developement costs or the PV people get theirs going and start a price war the price will come down. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Joseph M. Zawodny (KO4LW) NASA Langley Research Center zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov MS-475, Hampton VA, 23681 *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
In article <Bu02CA.Hzt@news.larc.nasa.gov>, zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov (Dr. Joseph M Zawodny) writes... > It is pleasingly fast on a 33MHz 386. I do not think it is going to > get a wide market share at that price however. There are enough die hard > IDLers out there like myself who will buy it though, and I'm sure after a few > hundred of us pay the developement costs or the PV people get theirs going and > start a price war the price will come down. > We are running an alpha version on PC's on the COBE project at NASA and it is very impressive. Don't expect competition with PV to bring the price down, though: PV has no plans to port to DOS. On the other hand, if you buy 10 or more copies then the price comes down to $900...(gulp). Rich Isaacman