| Re: MacOS X [message #20292] |
Sat, 03 June 2000 00:00  |
Struan Gray
Messages: 178
Registered: December 1995
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J.D. Smith, jdsmith@astro.cornell.edu writes:
> 1. Do nothing and force users to run IDL in the "Classic"
> compatibility
The nasty old cynic part of me has peered deep into his cups and
announced that this will be the solution, accompanied by a doubling of
the licence fee because OS X is essentially Unix.
The don't-worry-be-happy version is naive enough to take great
heart from this:
http://www.rsinc.com/AppProfile/idl_Motorola.cfm
And the fact that that in the past Macs have been treated on an
equal basis with other platforms (apart from the Windows-only
geegaws).
I do my programming on one of the new Powerbooks, and don't hanker
after a desktop G4.
One of the things I don't like about IDL on the Mac is that it is
a single-threaded resource hog, which makes for frustration in a
cooperative multitasking environment. It also makes it hard to, say,
hook IDL up as a compute engine to a web server, or to analyse data on
the same machine which runs the experiment. OS X and the rumoured
multi-processing Macs will sidestep this nicely.
Struan
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