| Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? [message #252] |
Thu, 19 March 1992 17:07 |
ip_boss
Messages: 2
Registered: March 1992
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In article <18MAR92.21482584@skyfox.usask.ca>, howp@skyfox.usask.ca writes:
> Hello, IDL users:
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> I have heard that IDL for the PC is coming out in August/92. This
> is what a fellow graduate student found out after talking to the IDL
> company (RSI). Apparently they had a beta version of IDL for DOS but
> it was so slow that they decided to abandon the program and the next
> implementation of IDL will be for Microsoft Windows 3.0.
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> My questions are:
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> 1) Has anybody heard anything more about this ( or is this vapourware )?
> 2) Has anybody used the beta version of IDL for Windows ( if it exists yet )
> and where can I get a copy?
We are now testing an alpha version of IDL on a 383 PC running MS-DOS Windows
3. The current version doesn't have the widgets toolkit but the next(?)
version will. We haven't used the PC version very much yet since we are too
busy developing code with a workstation version of IDL. You should wait for
RSI to release the official version to avoid some of the bugs detected with the
PC version so far.
--
Jack N. Churchill | jack@syd.deg.csiro.au
CSIRO Division of Exploration Geoscience | churchill@decus.com.au
PO Box 136 North Ryde NSW 2113 | Phone: +61 2 887 8884
Australia | Fax: +61 2 887 8909
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| Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? [message #253 is a reply to message #252] |
Thu, 19 March 1992 14:03  |
thompson
Messages: 584
Registered: August 1991
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In article <18MAR92.21482584@skyfox.usask.ca>, howp@skyfox.usask.ca writes...
> Hello, IDL users:
>
> I have heard that IDL for the PC is coming out in August/92. This
> is what a fellow graduate student found out after talking to the IDL
> company (RSI). Apparently they had a beta version of IDL for DOS but
> it was so slow that they decided to abandon the program and the next
> implementation of IDL will be for Microsoft Windows 3.0.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Has anybody heard anything more about this ( or is this vapourware )?
> 2) Has anybody used the beta version of IDL for Windows ( if it exists yet )
> and where can I get a copy?
>
I have seen an alpha version of IDL for Windows, and it looked pretty good. It
made a lot of difference which computer it was running on. It was a lot faster
on a 486 than on a 386. My understanding was that this was largely because the
386 did not have a math co-processor. I don't know what the marketing
situation is.
Bill
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