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Re: Numerical Computation Apps on OSX and/or Darwin


Is it possible to run and install applications made for unix (e.g. Matlab, Mathematica, Cadence unix versions) on MAC OSX and/or Darwin?

Matlab and Mathematica have specific MacOSX releases. Naturally they're not free, but I think if you're already licenced to use the product it doesn't cost extra to get the MacOSX version. As others have explained, you can't just take a Unix release and run it under X11 on Darwin - it has to be compiled for the specific processor architecture.

The MacOSX version of Matlab is actually a fairly straight port of the Unix version - the front end is Cocoa from what I can tell, but X11 is used for the graphics engine.

You could experiment with Octave, a free and broadly Matlab-compatible computation suite that runs in Darwin.

Tony M.

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