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- From: mek@guinan.psu.edu (Mark E. Kotanchek)
- Subject: Re: MATLAB (the missing piece)
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- Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
- References: <1992Nov11.101423.4758@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 15:58:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.101423.4758@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- gbrown@raven.ctr.columbia.edu (Glenn Brown) writes:
- > Personally, I think that considering the size of the NeXT market, we
- > should be thankful that MATLAB will be ported to the NeXT at all. The
- > software companies are going to write for sun sparcstations (and
- therefore
- > X, the prefered windowing system for sparcs) before NeXTs as a matter of
- > course, and the only reason there will be a port the small NeXT market
- is
- > that the NeXT also runs X on unix and is therefore easy to port to.
- >
- > Obviously, NeXTstep is a far better windowing system than X: It far
- > easier from a programming point of view (though it is harder to
- customize
- > than the X window managers). NeXT has the right idea: Get NeXTstep
- > running on as many machines as possible and then more software will be
- > ported to NeXTstep. This is a big reason NeXTstep is now running on
- > 486's. Personally, I think that NeXTstep should be ported to sparcs,
- > also. That would be best for the world of users... though it might not
- be
- > best for NeXT.
- >
- > --Glenn
-
- I'm going to have to disagree on the contention, "Personally, I think that
- considering the size of the NeXT market, we should be thankful that MATLAB
- will be ported to the NeXT at all." If it is cost-effective for Maple,
- Mathematica, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Improv, etc. to be ported to
- NeXTstep, it should be cost-effective for MATLAB or MATRIXx to be ported.
- NeXT IS losing sales because of the absence of numerical analysis tools.
-
- On the other hand, maybe I AM out to lunch since NeXTworld doesn't include
- such a product in their "10 most wanted" list. I guess number-crunching
- isn't important to the liberal artsy/business types who rate with NeXT.
-
- I may be out to lunch--but I'm STILL pissed off!
-
- Mark.
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- Mark Kotanchek
- Guidance & Control Dept - 363 ASB
- Applied Research Lab/Penn State
- P.O. Box 30
- State College, PA 16804
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