| Re: WAVE / IDL for Windows [message #701 is a reply to message #604] |
Fri, 08 January 1993 09:46  |
thompson
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Registered: August 1991
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In article <1993Jan7.153957.23211@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, knipp@ipi.uni-hannover.de writes...
> In comp.graphics.visualization I've found :
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>>> something NOW. There is also a product called PV-Wave (from Precision
>>> Visuals, Boulder CO) that would be excellent, but it only plots to VAX and
>>> Unix display devices, and this project is limited to PCs
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>> ...
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>> Check out IDL for Windows, a new release similar to PV-Wave. Call Research
>> Systems, Inc. at 303-786-9900.
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>> ...
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>> Are your PCs able to run Windows NT? I saw PV-WAVE running in the
>> Microsoft booth at Comdex last month on a 486 running WinNT. Also
>> running on DEC Alpha and Mips machines running WinNT.
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> In our institute we have Pv~Wave running on SUNs. Since we've got
> also some PC's it would be nice to have a PC-version of Wave.
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> My Questions :
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> a ) If there is an IDL for Windows, what is the address of
> its distributor in Germany ?
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> b ) Can it be that the guy who saw Pv~Wave running under WinNT
> actually saw IDL, or is there really a version of Pv~Wave
> for Windows NT ?
I'm not aware that Windows/NT has been released yet. However, IDL for
^^^
(Microsoft) Windows is a real product available right now from Research Systems
Incorporated. Precision Visions may have or is planning to port their own IDL
"clone" product PV-Wave to PCs, but I don't anything about that.
Bill Thompson
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