Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc!mdivax1!jackb Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy Keywords: Macintosh Message-ID: <1990Nov8.173358.2045@mdivax1.uucp> Date: 8 Nov 90 17:33:58 GMT References: <306@cti1.UUCP> <272CAF47.16091@orion.oac.uci.edu> <2eBi026n031i01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <16651@hydra.gatech.EDU> Reply-To: mdivax1!fh06c!jackb (Jack Brindle) Distribution: na Organization: Mobile Data International Lines: 24 Return-Path: Apparently-To: van-bc!rnews In article <16651@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4586c@prism.gatech.EDU (WILLETT,THOMAS CARTER) writes: >command line programs. i'm also not alone in feeling macs are perfectly >adequate for engineering work. in my department, IBM has held sway for all >of the 80s, but now we have a new lab full of macs, and the aerospace folks >across the street have a lab full of new macs also, and the chemistry folks >have a mac lab also. additionally, Mathematica and Matlab are much easier >to run on a mac than they are on a command line machine. >-- >thomas willett >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta >gt4586c@prism.gatech.edu This is far more significant than one would think at first. Atlanta is definitely the land of IBM, with many thousands of employees there. Ga Tech has been "in IBMs pocket" for quite some time now. Further, Ga Tech's president is on the board of directors of Next. So one would think that if they switched away from IBM equipment, it would be to a Next box. Way to go guys! Jack Brindle - Former Atlantan, (and future, whenever that will be)... P.S. To the Ga Tech folks. Great going last Saturday. We really enjoyed THE GAME.