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Re: PC-IDL [message #531]

Thu, 03 September 1992 14:54

isaacman
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Registered: June 1992

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In article <Bu02CA.Hzt@news.larc.nasa.gov>, zawodny@arbd0.larc.nasa.gov (Dr. Joseph M Zawodny) writes...
> It is pleasingly fast on a 33MHz 386. I do not think it is going to
> get a wide market share at that price however. There are enough die hard
> IDLers out there like myself who will buy it though, and I'm sure after a few
> hundred of us pay the developement costs or the PV people get theirs going and
> start a price war the price will come down.
>
We are running an alpha version on PC's on the COBE project at NASA and
it is very impressive. Don't expect competition with PV to bring the
price down, though: PV has no plans to port to DOS. On the other hand,
if you buy 10 or more copies then the price comes down to $900...(gulp).

Rich Isaacman

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		Re: PC-IDL By: isaacman on Thu, 03 September 1992 14:54
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