Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!msi.umn.edu!src.honeywell.com!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!dftsrv!jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov!jim From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: SGI functionality - Can I do on a PI what I can on a Mac? Message-ID: <3724@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 24 Oct 90 17:44:39 GMT Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Distribution: na Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 38 First of all, let me say that the following is NOT intended to start yet another "Box A is better than Box B; No it isn't Box C is better..." argument... I just need some insight. Right now I'm using a MacIIfx running A/UX 2.0. However, with the number crunching and simulation workload I'm doing, the Mac just can't keep up. Now one of the things I DO like about my setup is that I can run a FORTRAN program, then cut the data from the shell window, and then paste it into a plotting application. (If you have access/experience with Macs, then you know what I mean... even if you don't I'm sure you do anyway) In any case, I am seriously looking at upgrading to the PI 4D25 (with the upgrade to 35) but I don't want to loose that functionality which I like. Can I do the same on a PI? If so, what applications are available which let me do it (I'm looking mostly at a word-processor, some kinda plotting/graphing application and some sort of 2D "drawing" application with "cut-and-paste" capability between all three). Is this possible? I hope so, otherwise I'll have to wait until Apple comes out with their 040, which would STILL be slower than a PI... ... of course I guess I could always use my Mac as my "document" computer, and the PI as the number cruncher, but I would still have the task of cutting the screen data and pasting it to a file to be ftped to the Mac... Quick E-mail responses would be greatly appreciated!! -- ======================================================================= #include =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1 jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up, until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply."