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Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? [message #4046 is a reply to message #3970]

Sat, 15 April 1995 00:00

ps
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Registered: September 1994

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Chris Jacobsen (jacobsen@xray1.physics.sunysb.edu) wrote:
: The CPU in a pentium is within hailing distance of the CPU of new
: unix workstations. If that's the only issue, a PC is a good platform
: for IDL in terms of bang for the buck.

: For me, a big issue is memory. For image processing,
: we will frequently end up with several 1024x1024 complex floating
: point arrays at 8 MB memory each. We can afford to have one $10,000
: unix workstation with 128 or even 256 MB of memory and a half-dozen
: X terminals so that one or two people can do image processing at any
: moment. We cannot afford to put 128 MB of memory in each of half a
: dozen PCs. Also, nobody ever screws up AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS
: on the unix workstation...

So get the PC, put 128MB and Linux to it. IDL 4.0 is announced for Linux
Then connect your XTerms to it and enjoy.

Peter

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		Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: smithjp on Wed, 12 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: sterner on Thu, 20 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: velt on Wed, 19 April 1995 00:00
		RE: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: mallozzi on Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: Fergus Gallagher on Tue, 18 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: gurman on Mon, 17 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ps on Sat, 15 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: kid on Fri, 14 April 1995 00:00
		Re: Platform recommendation/tradeoffs? By: ps on Mon, 24 April 1995 00:00

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