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Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux [message #3548 is a reply to message #3462]

Thu, 02 February 1995 00:59

hrebhan
Messages: 10
Registered: January 1995

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> I have to say, I'm astounded at the rather cool reaction this
> announcement seems to be getting. I thought an offer to try out
> PV-Wave for nothing for 2 1/2 months would warrant some kind
> words, to say the least. Coupled with the fact that, if you
> already own a PC and have enough disk space, you can try this
> system out for ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (i.e. Linux is also free),
> I would have thought this is something worth shouting for
> joy about!
>

You're right with respect to the 'real'(?) PC's where Linux is a good
choise to replace MS-DOS or other stone-aged Microsoft Products. To
my information up to now there are only PowerPC's with MAC OS 7.5
available and that's what I ment.
There have been some postings about speed comparision of IDL on
MAC and on SUN-Sparcstations. These results would be similar for
PV-Wave. And if you look at the price differences of SUN-Sparc
and MAC-PowerPC's and if you don't need the whole 'power' of UNIX
all the time than a PowerPc is a serious candidate for your work.

> Anyway, IDL already exists for PowerPC in native version, which
> I agree, is also a good thing.
>
And would be a good thing for Pv-Wave too !

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		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: mahan on Wed, 01 February 1995 19:02
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: uphlabh on Wed, 01 February 1995 15:22
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: larkum on Wed, 01 February 1995 00:40
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: ppotocki on Mon, 30 January 1995 21:21
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: hrebhan on Mon, 30 January 1995 02:04
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: knipp on Sun, 29 January 1995 06:13
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: rep2857 on Thu, 02 February 1995 08:08
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: kaaret on Thu, 02 February 1995 10:22
		Re: Announcing PV-WAVE on Linux By: hrebhan on Thu, 02 February 1995 00:59

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