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Re: Mac OS X [message #30608 is a reply to message #21980]

Mon, 06 May 2002 13:16

MKatz843
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Registered: March 2002

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Fellow Mac Users take heart.

The confusion can be cleared up with a quick trip to the Research
Systems web site -- press releases.

After threatening to drop Mac OS, and a big backlash from fellow Mac
users, like myself, RSI decided to go the UNIX route to Mac OS X.

The new version won't be Cocoa or Carbonized . . . it will be a UNIX
version of IDL. And it will run on the Mac through Tenon's X Windows
system. It will be platform *native*, it will fully support OpenGL and
I believe (pray) it will be great. I checked out the trial version of
Tenon's X Windows on my G4/733 and it is very nice--much nicer, I
believe, than the XFree86 version.

In the mean time, I'm running IDL 5.4 in Classic mode and it works
very well--no complaints. Never crashes. I'll echo the previous poster
and say that there are some object graphics quirks, and drawing in
object graphics is sort of slow. The funny thing is (someone please
explain this to me) when I run processor intensive calculations (with
no graphics) IDL actually runs about 20% faster in Classic mode than
it does when I reboot and run the program from OS 9.2.1 (yes, with
lots of RAM). Go Figure.

M. Katz

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		Mac OS X By: Ed Wright on Fri, 13 October 2000 00:00
		Re: Mac OS X By: Dennis J. Boccippio on Sat, 28 October 2000 07:02
		Re: Mac OS X By: reardonb on Fri, 27 October 2000 15:33
		Re: Mac OS X By: tim on Mon, 06 May 2002 21:58
		Re: Mac OS X By: MKatz843 on Mon, 06 May 2002 13:16
		Re: Mac OS X By: Karl Schultz on Mon, 06 May 2002 09:30

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