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Re: Mac OSX [message #27095 is a reply to message #26980]

Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

R.Bauer
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Registered: November 1998

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"K. Bowman" wrote:
>
> A few points on the Mac OS X issue (that I am also making to RSI).
>
> 1. Due to steadily improving price/performance ratios, I expect that
> we will continue to move away from proprietary Unix solutions (SGI,
> Sun, IBM, DEC ... I mean Compaq) to Linux and Mac OS. I was planning
> to *convert Unix licenses to Mac licenses*.
>
> 2. I am now concerned that Linux, AIX, IRIX, etc. versions of IDL will
> also disappear (with no warning), perhaps one at a time, and that we
> will be left with only a Windows version. I would guess that AIX and
> IRIX will be the first to go. If that seems unlikely to you, consider
> RSI's public statements of Mac support. Their about face is so blatant
> that I am not inclined to have confidence in future RSI statements of
> direction. (We have no history with Windows here, and I expect that we
> would switch tools before we would switch to Windows.)

Dear Ken

last year I met David Stern in Darmstadt. This was before the idl5.4
release.

At this time I was informed that idl5.4 for AIX will be the last
Version. One of the reasons is the migration from IBM to linux.
I remember that several times it was discussed how difficulty
it is to support more and more platforms or older and older
platforms.

We ourselfs are in a process to migrate from AIX to linux PCs
too so this statement was bad for us but not as bas as it could be.
Then with the idl5.4 release installed on AIX everytime idl
was started we got a message that this is the last supported
version for AIX.
We and I believe some more others asked them to build IDL5.5 for
AIX too and you are seeing the result. IDL5.5 will be builded
for AIX too.

There was no discussion about AIX and IDL in this newsgroup as
I remember. I hope you all give your arguments to RSI too.

regards

Reimar

--
Reimar Bauer

Institut fuer Stratosphaerische Chemie (ICG-1)
Forschungszentrum Juelich
email: R.Bauer@fz-juelich.de
http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/
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http://www.fz-juelich.de/icg/icg1/idl_icglib/idl_lib_intro.h tml

http://www.fz-juelich.de/zb/text/publikation/juel3786.html
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http://www.suse.de/de/news/hotnews/MS.html

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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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