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From: brian@granite.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian of ASTD-CP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Spyglass & NCSA Image,HDF,etc. ???
Summary: What's the difference?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 23:44:31 GMT
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We are reviewing a commercial Macintosh visualization 
software product called "Spyglass."  Superficially, it
strongly resembles the suite of free visualization tools
from the the National Center for Supercomputer Applica-
tions (NCSA).  Some of those tools are "Image" and "HDF"
and "DataView."

Does anyone out there know what the relationship between
Spyglass and the NCSA tools is?  Is Spyglass some sort of
"industrial strength" or "professional" version of the NCSA
tools?  Or, can we save money and licensing hassles and yet get
the same functionality just by using the free tools?  Does
Spyglass actually give you anything for the money?

There is no mention of the NCSA tools in the Spyglass demo
documentation.  So, either there is a case of amazing
convergent evolution, or Spyglass is trying to pull a fast
one on us and charge big bucks for something you can get
elsewhere for free.  What gives?  

brian
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