| Re: IDL for Mac doesn't exist? [message #615 is a reply to message #614] |
Tue, 05 January 1993 07:22  |
bowman
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Registered: September 1991
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In article <3825@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>,
f61090@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (F61090) wrote:
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> Is there a port of IDL or PVWAVE which runs on a Macintosh computer (Mac/OS or A/UX)??
> I have heard of a version for IBM-PC. Why not one for Mac?
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> Kyo Akita ( kakita@solar.stanford.edu )
I'm sure that the reason is simple - the market for a Mac version is seen
to be smaller than the market for the PC version. I think RSI is missing
an important market, however. Many scientists have Macs, and there is
nothing comparable available on the Mac. Mathematica will do everthing IDL
will, and more - in principle. In practice I find it not to be well suited
for handling large data sets, but I use it for some other kinds of tasks.
The closest thing on the Mac is probably Matlab.
As a Mac user I would love to see a Mac version. Now that Apple is moving
to the IBM Power PC chips (and AIX for there version of Unix), we may see a
Mac version in the future. I hope so.
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Dr. Kenneth P. Bowman 409-862-4060
Climate System Research Program 409-862-4132 fax
Department of Meteorology bowman@csrp.tamu.edu
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