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Re: which *nix will RSI nix next? [message #27599 is a reply to message #27515]

Thu, 25 October 2001 12:06

Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] is currently offline

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"Richard Cooke" <rcooke@rsinc.com> writes:

> Not to worry, IDL will not turn its back on its cross platform roots. AIX
> has strong following in Europe and we are working closely with IBM to ensure
> continued support for IDL on this platform. We are also very close to
> finishing our investigation of whether or not we can provide a
> unix/x-windows implementation for Mac OS X (which looks promising at the
> moment) that will allow us to continue to economically support the Macintosh
> platform. Don't read too much into this situation. Unix platforms by and
> large are fairly inexpensive to support. With Compaq's announcement that
> they are abandoning the Alpha chip we sort of saw the writing on the wall
> (aside from the fact that very few of our customers actually buy licenses
> for this platform).

The question isn't so much the *Alpha* chip, but Tru64, which is bound to
continue on the 64-bit Intel stuff that may look and feel slightly alpha-ish,
given that they've acquired most of the Alpha development team.. no?

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		which *nix will RSI nix next? By: Richard French on Tue, 23 October 2001 17:13
		Re: which *nix will RSI nix next? By: Dennis Boccippio on Wed, 24 October 2001 08:58
		Re: which *nix will RSI nix next? By: Richard Cooke on Wed, 24 October 2001 08:01
		Re: which *nix will RSI nix next? By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Thu, 25 October 2001 12:06
		Re: which *nix will RSI nix next? By: Joseph B. Gurman on Mon, 29 October 2001 12:56
		Re: which *nix will RSI nix next? By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 25 October 2001 09:22
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