Re: CUG Ideas for Engineers
Re: CUG Ideas for Engineers
- Subject: Re: CUG Ideas for Engineers
- From: John Johnson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 10:02:09 -0500
On 30 Apr, 2004, at 0:00, email@hidden wrote:
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:51:47 -0500
From: "Matt Janeczek" <email@hidden>
Subject: CUG Ideas for Engineers
To: email@hidden
Group,
[snip Macs at an engineering university]
My point being, our school is quite a bit different from say a liberal
arts school where Macs are very commonplace. Do any of you out there,
involved in either campus groups or user groups in general, have a good
idea on how to make Macs interesting to engineers?
Some thoughts, but I don't know how applicable they are:
1. push the integration with UNIX. I know that the engineering students
at Purdue were using HP and Sun workstations a lot, but I have no idea
what they were using them for.
2. TeX/LaTeX, should engineers use it. Windows has these applications
as well, but the quality and integration of the tools available (for
free!) on OS X is quite amazing.
3. BBEdit. If people are pushing pure text around, it's one of the best
editors out there.
It really is a question of audience. Pushing the ease of use of Macs
isn't a selling point if the people involved like to monkey around with
their boxes and OS. Pushing integration of devices isn't useful if
they're not the devices that they use (and most scientific instruments
that I ran into just didn't interface with Macs (though with a BSD
foundation, that may be different now). Telling people how to monkey
around with your OS on a Mac, that might be a direction to go.
Later,
John
email@hidden
Serious Macintosh User's Group
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