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From: reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: Plotting routines
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Date: 30 Mar 89 16:57:36 GMT
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Encore's FORTRAN compiler (release 2) under UMAX 4.2 will not build
the DI-3000 package.  I recently tried to do this, and I couldn't
even get the latest device drivers to work!!  The project was cancelled
because Precision Visuals wanted too much money to upgrade our VAX
UNIX license to the Encore ($16,000 even including credits for our VAX
license and a 50% government discount!).  If we wanted to also add
PicSure, Textpro and Sun and postscript Device drivers we would also
have had to pony up an additional 16 grand.  DI-3000 is mucho expensive!

My recommendation is that you try something like NCAR.  It is MUCH
cheaper than DI-3000 ($1500 educational price), and, I think, a better 
package.  I am in the middle of installing NCAR Graphics v2.01 right now, 
and the only problems I am having are caused by a bug in Encore's loader 
(fixed in UMAX 4.3 I'm told :-).  I am testing a work-around right now and
hope to have the package up sometime next week.

William Reeder
University of Texas at Austin
Computation Center
reeder@emx.utexas.edu 

DISCLAIMER:	I speak only for myself, and usually only to myself.