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From: bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: VaxStation/DecStation Laboratory Opinions
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.043009.18843@rti.rti.org>
Date: 15 Jun 91 04:30:09 GMT
References: <10214.284577b8@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <10214.284577b8@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu> prender@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>Hi.  Our research group needs to do real-time (or as close as possible) display
>(grayscale-ish images) and 2D FFTs of 100+ x 100+ arrays of numbers, along with
>standard 2- or 3D rotations of the generated images (basically all just very
>fast (compared to DOS on 386s) numbercrunching and graphics), and I've drawn
>the short straw on 'finding a suitable system' for the job.  So far, OS/2 2.0
>(32 bit), SUN (and similar) workstations, and the NeXT Machine have all come
>up for consideration.  I have myriad DOS (and related area) experience, but
>nothing of consequence on the others, and so I'm looking for some practical
>opinions of people actually USING VaxStations/DecStations (or actually, ANY
>of the above systems) in a laboratory enviroment.
>
>is VERY tempting to us, but I have NO experience AT ALL with even SEEING a
>VS/DS run (I am a mainframe UnixBaby, though, and reasonably fluent in VaX
>usage), and so hope to get some real nitty-gritty on the subject.  Anything
>provided would be greatly appreciated. As usual, EMAIL is sure to be read but
>postings to this group should be noticed as well :-) ...
>
>Thanks.
>
>S Prendergast
>OSU Physics
>prender@ohstpy.mps.ohio.state.edu                 prender@ohstpy.BITNET