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Re: Mac OSX [message #27184 is a reply to message #27034]

Fri, 12 October 2001 09:06

Ken Prager
Messages: 4
Registered: October 2001

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In article <3BC705E6.A716EFFD@jhuapl.edu>,
"Noam R. Izenberg" <noam.izenberg@jhuapl.edu> wrote:

> JD Smith wrote:
>
> And here's a few more I found, from the competitive upgrade offer to
>
>> former Mac MatLab users (granted its from 1997/98...):
>>
>> [snip]
>> "Research Systems is strongly committed to supporting the MacOS
>> on PowerPC-based platforms....
>>
>
> And so they were three years ago, and, I'm convinced, they'd still like to
> be. I've been told (paraphrasing here) that that specific Matlab conversion
> campaign got RSI basically _nothing_. It was a major demonstration
> (apparently one of many over recent years) that the mac market was getting
> ever-less hospitable. I still wish they'd been able to hold off the decision
> 0.5 to 1 year later than they did, but how many statements made by any tech
> company (hard or soft) at the height of the Net boom still hold much water
> today? Wasn't PSINet buying stadiums around then?

I've been a Mac user since 1984 (I went out and bought my first one,
while still in college, right after I saw the Super Bowl ad). Aside
from Suns at work, I've used nothing but, ever since.

I've been a Matlab user since 1989.

To be honest, I never *really* converted from Matlab to IDL. Sure, my
group has purchased some Mac IDL licenses but I personally still use
Matlab, even with OS X. Why? It's what I'm used to, I have a lot of
time invested in Matlab scripts and functions, and it still works. My
plan has always been to use Matlab until it either stops working with
Mac OS or until a Rhapsody/OS X version of IDL came out. I was always
glad to know I had an alternative in IDL.

I received that upgrade letter a few years back and didn't bite becuase
I didn't have to. I wonder how many other people are out there who felt
the same way: they will use Matlab until it just won't work anymore.
It's not that the Mac market is dead but that there are still
alternatives to IDL. By the way, you can still buy version 5.2.1 of
Matlab for the Mac. Some say it's works better than version of 6.x for
PCs. I know it meets my needs.

Ken Prager

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		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:21
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Thu, 11 October 2001 01:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:22
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:46
		Re: Mac OSX By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 11:34
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Thu, 11 October 2001 01:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul van Delst on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:38
		Re: Mac OSX By: Todd Clements on Wed, 10 October 2001 10:43
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 10 October 2001 07:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 07:22
		Re: Mac OSX By: Jaco van Gorkom on Wed, 10 October 2001 06:18
		Re: Mac OSX By: Richard Adams on Wed, 10 October 2001 05:56
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 10 October 2001 05:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Bernard K. on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:37
		Re: Mac OSX By: Rob.Preece on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:29
		Re: Mac OSX By: Bernard K. on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:33
		Re: Mac OSX By: Wayne Landsman on Tue, 09 October 2001 23:18
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 22:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 21:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: gschneider on Tue, 09 October 2001 16:01
		Re: Mac OSX By: Stein Vidar Hagfors H[1] on Wed, 10 October 2001 12:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 14:09
		Re: Mac OSX By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 11 October 2001 13:45
		Mac Scoop (Long) By: Noam R. Izenberg on Thu, 11 October 2001 14:25
		Re: Mac Scoop (Long) By: msienkiewicz on Fri, 12 October 2001 17:30
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 11 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: richard hilton on Thu, 11 October 2001 09:06
		Re: Mac OSX By: Andrew Cool on Sun, 14 October 2001 17:09
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 11 October 2001 09:06
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:47
		Re: Mac OSX By: Martin Otte on Thu, 11 October 2001 14:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Thu, 11 October 2001 08:48
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Thu, 11 October 2001 08:23
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 10 October 2001 23:01
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 21:25
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		Re: Mac OSX By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 10 October 2001 18:33
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 16:41
		Re: Mac OSX By: pit on Sat, 13 October 2001 11:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Wed, 10 October 2001 14:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:39
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:27
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: David Fanning on Wed, 10 October 2001 13:09
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ken Prager on Fri, 12 October 2001 09:06
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Fri, 12 October 2001 08:01
		Re: Mac OSX By: pit on Mon, 15 October 2001 12:21
		Re: Mac OSX By: Craig Markwardt on Sun, 14 October 2001 17:51

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