Re: unix or windows?

• To: Adele Cutler <adele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: unix or windows?
• From: "From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:31:02 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Adele,

Any OS that supports Java 2 and Java3D will work. Sun
supplies these for Windows, Solaris and Linux (I guess
the Linux Java3D comes from Blackdown). If there are no
other factors, I'd probably pick Linux. I think the fastest
Java implementation is supposed to be the one from IBM for
Linux.

I suspect others on this list know more than I do about
these matters, so hopefully you'll here from them.

Cheers,
Bill
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Adele Cutler wrote:

> Thanks for the parallel coordinates help, Bill!
> 
> Now I have what is maybe a really dumb question. 
> 
> Is there a preferred machine/OS/development environment 
> for VisAD? 
> 
> I'm asking because I need to buy a new computer and I 
> don't know what to buy. I'm very comfortable with unix, 
> which I currently use with X-win32 from a PC. I've used 
> sparcs in the past and I'm comfortable with them too. 
> I've been using IBM Visual Age for Java and this seems
> very nice, but it's my understanding that this only works 
> on a PC. So I'm torn... 
>  
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Adele.
> 
> 

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