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From: wave@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization
Subject: Re: info needed
Message-ID: <3978@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 9 Nov 90 04:10:55 GMT
References: <1990Nov8.173804.5775@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <1990Nov8.163535.11053@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <25336@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
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In article <25336@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes:
>>In article <1990Nov8.163535.11053@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> mccool@dgp.toronto.edu (Michael McCool) writes:
>>>andyrose@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Andy Rose) writes:
>>>
>>
>>>>How about software? apE costs 75$ (?)
>>>	apE is $75 only if you are at a university.  Commercial users pay
>>>	more, but not much more.  They also make the source available!
>>>
>>
>>Does anyone know if apE has been ported to the NeXT?  Thanks.
>>

Yes, it was reported one comp.sys.next that apE was shown at the announcement
of the new machines running on them.  I don't recall if that was running on
an alpha of one of the color boxes, or if it was just a proof-of-concept 
running on a more stable platform, i.e. the 2 bit box.

Personally, I'm quite excited about the applicability of the NeXT machine
in the area of aiding the visualization and comprehension of scientific data
and as a front end for computational science in general.  I hope to continue
my PhD work on a NeXT platform when the new machines become available next
year.  


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