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Re: Mac OSX [message #26980]

Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17

K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000

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A few points on the Mac OS X issue (that I am also making to RSI).

1. Due to steadily improving price/performance ratios, I expect that
we will continue to move away from proprietary Unix solutions (SGI,
Sun, IBM, DEC ... I mean Compaq) to Linux and Mac OS. I was planning
to *convert Unix licenses to Mac licenses*.

2. I am now concerned that Linux, AIX, IRIX, etc. versions of IDL will
also disappear (with no warning), perhaps one at a time, and that we
will be left with only a Windows version. I would guess that AIX and
IRIX will be the first to go. If that seems unlikely to you, consider
RSI's public statements of Mac support. Their about face is so blatant
that I am not inclined to have confidence in future RSI statements of
direction. (We have no history with Windows here, and I expect that we
would switch tools before we would switch to Windows.)

3. At present I primarily use IDL remotely on Unix from my Mac via
X-Windows. Compared to building a full OS X product, it should be
*easy* to port the Linux version of IDL to OS X (which is based on
FreeBSD). We could then run it from the command line and use X Windows
on the Mac. That would be relatively painless for them and for us. I
would rather use my own editor anyway (who wouldn't?). If I have to
use the development environment, I could run it under X Windows.

Ken Bowman

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		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Tue, 09 October 2001 12:17
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 11:08
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:54
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dick Jackson on Tue, 09 October 2001 10:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:49
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Tue, 09 October 2001 09:24
		Re: Mac OSX By: Noam R. Izenberg on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 08:02
		Re: Mac OSX By: Liam E. Gumley on Tue, 09 October 2001 07:26
		Re: Mac OSX By: Ian Dean on Tue, 09 October 2001 01:28
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 21:14
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 08 October 2001 13:35
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:59
		Re: Mac OSX By: K. Bowman on Mon, 08 October 2001 10:12
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Pavel A. Romashkin on Mon, 08 October 2001 09:19
		Re: Mac OSX By: Paul Woodford on Tue, 09 October 2001 19:44
		Re: Mac OSX By: Randall Skelton on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:55
		Re: Mac OSX By: John-David T. Smith on Tue, 09 October 2001 13:58
		Re: Mac OSX By: colinr on Wed, 10 October 2001 04:57
		Re: Mac OSX By: Dennis Boccippio on Fri, 12 October 2001 07:20
		Re: Mac OSX By: R.Bauer on Wed, 10 October 2001 00:34

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