| Re: Who is this masked man? [message #74] |
Thu, 11 July 1991 09:32 |
rob
Messages: 10
Registered: July 1991
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In article <1991Jul10.131733.22426@terminator.cc.umich.edu> sandy@eagle.cd.med.umich.edu (Sandy Simon) writes:
> In response to Mark R. Thomsen:
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>> I was told by a guy on the NCAR Graphics team that IDL, NCAR Graphics,
>> and PV Wave share the same original architect/author. He said the name
>> but I forgot it.
>> Who is this masked man? I think IDL was the name of the original package.
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> The man is David Stern at Research Systems, Inc., Denver. At the University
> of MI med center, we have been using IDL for at least 8 years now -- I don't
> know how much older than that IDL might be.
RSI was founded in 1977, as mentioned by Ali Bahrami of RSI (Boulder, CO).
David Stern is your man for IDL (and later PV~WAVE -- see other articles
for the details of how this came about), and the roots were at the University
of Colorado.
Here are a few words from the old NCAR Graphics Version 2.00 User's Guide:
The NCAR graphics package dates from the mid-1960s. The initial impetus
for the package was to produce a set of plotting tools to support NCAR
scientists in their research. Most of the code has been written by the
staff of the Scientific Computing Division of NCAR ...
As mentioned by Ray Bovet of NCAR (also in Boulder), Tom Wright was the
principal creator of NCAR Graphics.
Hope this helps,
Rob
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| Re: Who is this masked man? [message #75 is a reply to message #74] |
Wed, 10 July 1991 06:17  |
sandy
Messages: 6
Registered: July 1991
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In response to Mark R. Thomsen:
>> David M. Legler writes
>> I assume the heritage of these packages goes back to a common ancestor
>> somewhere. What was it and how long ago did it exist ?
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> I was told by a guy on the NCAR Graphics team that IDL, NCAR Graphics,
> and PV Wave share the same original architect/author. He said the name
> but I forgot it.
> Who is this masked man? I think IDL was the name of the original package.
The man is David Stern at Research Systems, Inc., Denver. At the University
of MI med center, we have been using IDL for at least 8 years now -- I don't
know how much older than that IDL might be.
--
Sandy Simon
Systems Research Programmer
Cardiology Division (B1F245)
University of Michigan Medical Center
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