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Re: Public domain IDL-PVWAVE ancestor? [message #313 is a reply to message #310]

Wed, 24 June 1992 12:19

eckman
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Registered: February 1991

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In article <1992Jun24.004325.4613@cs.yale.edu> zador-anthony@CS.YALE.EDU (Tony Zador) writes:
> Rumor has it that IDL and PVWAVE share a common ancestor, sometime
> about a decade ago. Is this true? If so, was it public domain? If so,
> where might i obtain it?
>
In the pre-VAX IDL (xidl) days, there was a PDP-developed version of
IDL that ran on some of the PDP and VAX machines that I used while
a grad student at Colorado. This would have been prior to around 1982
when the native-model VAX IDL was released.
Whether this PDP version of idl is actually public domain is not something
I have the answer to. Given the amazing things that the present incarnation
of idl is capable of, I doubt that you would want to use it even it were
freely available.

Richard Eckman
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, VA
eckman@dobson.larc.nasa.gov

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