Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
In article <3825@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, f61090@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (F61090) writes... > Is there a port of IDL or PVWAVE which runs on a Macintosh computer (Mac/OS or > A/UX)?? I have heard of a version for IBM-PC. Why not one for Mac? David Stern of RSI told us a few months ago that IDL for MacIntoshes was under development, and that it should be released by late 1993. I've since heard second-hand that it is about to go into alpha test, so it may be ahead of schedule. I believe that the holdup was that some improvements needed to be made to MacOS in the area of virtual memory before IDL could be ported to it. Here's to platform independence! Bill Thompson
In article <3825@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, f61090@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (F61090) wrote: > > > Is there a port of IDL or PVWAVE which runs on a Macintosh computer (Mac/OS or A/UX)?? > I have heard of a version for IBM-PC. Why not one for Mac? > > Kyo Akita ( kakita@solar.stanford.edu ) I'm sure that the reason is simple - the market for a Mac version is seen to be smaller than the market for the PC version. I think RSI is missing an important market, however. Many scientists have Macs, and there is nothing comparable available on the Mac. Mathematica will do everthing IDL will, and more - in principle. In practice I find it not to be well suited for handling large data sets, but I use it for some other kinds of tasks. The closest thing on the Mac is probably Matlab. As a Mac user I would love to see a Mac version. Now that Apple is moving to the IBM Power PC chips (and AIX for there version of Unix), we may see a Mac version in the future. I hope so. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- Dr. Kenneth P. Bowman 409-862-4060 Climate System Research Program 409-862-4132 fax Department of Meteorology bowman@csrp.tamu.edu Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3150
In article <3825@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, you write: > > Is there a port of IDL or PVWAVE which runs on a Macintosh computer (Mac/OS or A/UX)?? > I have heard of a version for IBM-PC. Why not one for Mac? > > Kyo Akita ( kakita@solar.stanford.edu ) No. it's a pitty, there isn't one. But, it would be nice to have an implementation auf IDL on the mac platforms. I would buy such a package for my MAC Quadra-700. Hi RSI, what's about porting IDL to the MAC's and NeXT's ? ____________________________________________________________ ___ Dipl.-Ing. Karl-Heinz Dittberner | Address: Arnimallee 22 Dept. Scientific Data Processing | D-1000 Berlin 33 c/o Free University of Berlin | Phone: (+4930) 838 2531 E-Mail: dit@vaxser.grumed.fu-berlin.de (Internet)