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Re: Mac OSX [message #27020 is a reply to message #27019]

Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57

John-David T. Smith is currently offline

John-David T. Smith
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Richard Adams wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Word here on the street is that despite early announcements of support
> for OSX there is now doubt that it will be supported. This must surely mean
> the end of IDL on the Macintosh. I for one - with a lab full of Macs and an
> admittedly small but growing number of IDL licences - think this is major
> bad news. The potential of an adult operating system (OSX/unix) and a great
> analysis environment (IDL) looked like a rosy future for our work. Am I the
> only one who thinks that dropping Mac support would be a bad move? If others
> feel the same then should we at least lobby for continued support for
> Macintosh computers?
>
> With best regards,
>

Hmm, this press release from March sure tells a different story:

http://www.rsinc.com/pr/detail.cfm?PressreleaseID=48&cid 110907&s=514

also, the beta announcement in early June stated:

"However, this will be a very limited release as our efforts are focused
towards the IDL5.5 MACOSX release."

So this would be a significant change of story. <PURE_CONJECTURE> My
guess is they might have been overambitious about their full re-write
for OSX, and are now faced with delaying 5.5 a few months to work out
the kinks in their (essentially from scratch) version, vs. just letting
it slide until 5.6 (or will it be 6.0?). </PURE_CONJECTURE> I really
doubt they will drop Mac support entirely, especially after going on
stage with Steve at the WWDC in 1999, and raving about Altivec.

JD

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		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:08
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:02
		Re: Mac OSX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 09 October 2001 07:26
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ian Dean on Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 21:14
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 08 October 2001 13:35
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 09 October 2001 19:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

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