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Re: Mac OSX [message #27019 is a reply to message #27018]

Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <9psjm1$lfn$1@mwrns.noaa.gov>, Pavel Romashkin
<pavel.romashkin@noaa.gov> wrote:

> "Richard Adams" <r.j.adams@bath.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:B7E745FF.24FCE%r.j.adams@bath.ac.uk...
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Word here on the street is that despite early announcements of support
>> for OSX there is now doubt that it will be supported.
>
> Who told you that? I have heard a totally opposite thing: OSX verion is
> going to be the major release of IDL for Macs, and it will fully utilize the
> Velocity engine.

I went looking for the RSI press release from last spring announcing OS
X support, but it seems to have disappeared from their web page. Then
I found the "What's New in IDL 5.5" page.

http://www.rsinc.com/idl/whatsnew.cfm

Buried at the bottom is a table of current and future support and the
following note:

NOTE: RSI will be unable to provide IDL on the MAC OS X platform as
previously planned.

This is really a disaster for us. We have purchased new Macs based on
RSI's previous press release promising OS X support. I am extremely
disappointed that they are breaking their promise, but I expect that we
are simply screwed.

How about at least providing us with a Mac version that will run from
the command line on OS X (using X-Windows)? That should be a
relatively straightforward port.

Ken Bowman

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		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:08
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:02
		Re: Mac OSX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 09 October 2001 07:26
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ian Dean on Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 21:14
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 08 October 2001 13:35
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 09 October 2001 19:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

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