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Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? [message #401 is a reply to message #257]

Thu, 19 March 1992 19:45

bradleyt
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Registered: March 1992

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In article <18MAR92.21482584@skyfox.usask.ca> howp@skyfox.usask.ca writes:

> I have heard that IDL for the PC is coming out in August/92. This
> is what a fellow graduate student found out after talking to the IDL
> company (RSI). Apparently they had a beta version of IDL for DOS but
> it was so slow that they decided to abandon the program and the next
> implementation of IDL will be for Microsoft Windows 3.0.

So you're saying it is too slow to run under DOS, so they
made it run under Windows 3.0? Talk about a diverging
solution...

Todd.
ps. I would, of course, love to hear ANY attempt to explain
how a Windows port is going to make any program run faster.

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		IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? By: howp on Wed, 18 March 1992 13:48
		Re: idl By: khb on Tue, 25 February 1992 20:40
		Re: idl By: thompson on Tue, 25 February 1992 09:41
		Re: idl By: thompson on Tue, 25 February 1992 09:39
		Re: idl By: thompson on Tue, 25 February 1992 09:14
		Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? By: fireman on Fri, 20 March 1992 09:58
		Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? By: bradleyt on Fri, 20 March 1992 07:26
		Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? By: bradleyt on Thu, 19 March 1992 22:00
		Re: IDL for Windows 3.0: Any more info? By: bradleyt on Thu, 19 March 1992 19:45

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