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Re[2]: COMPUTAX comes true :-)



yuri@orbotech.co.il (Yuri Shirman) wrote:
> 
> > From strauss@actcom.co.il Wed May 31 10:57 IDT 1995
>  
> > XEmacs, GCC, Netscape, Mosaic, Tcl/Tk demos, PovRay (?? does any one use
> it).
> > We need more programs that will catch the ppls in the show.
> > 
>  completely, 1-2 hour(s).
> > 
> > Erez
> 
> What about MuPaD ( package similar to Mathematica or Maple)?
> Its slackware-packaged installation takes 4 diskettes. 
> 
> 	Yuri Shirman ( yuri@orbotech.co.il )

In my opinion, we should show a few applications simultaniously (it's UNIX,
isn't it?!) - and the more, the better. MuPAD is intensively OpenLook libs based
and is a memory hog by itself. As most of the modern apps use Motif, we
shouldn't use xview's at all, unless the PC's on show will have 32+Mb RAM (my
box has 20Mb and running MuPAD makes it swap when switching between windows; of
course, I always have 5-10 xterms/editors/mailers/... - but the same will be on
COMPUTAX, that's my point). Why not to show Maple demo - though it's statically
linked it takes less memory and it's what people are familiar with. Showing
commercial apps/demos is also a good way to demonstrate that big companies
consider Linux seriously.

Evgeny