Re: FW: What goes where?
Re: FW: What goes where?
- Subject: Re: FW: What goes where?
- From: //aSaM// <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 15:25:56 +0200
But unix is hard, and X is one of the most obscure things about
unix. The only reason I can see for Apple devoting resources to
X-windows is because there a lot of people with unix workstations
on their desks who want to be able to do their work on a Mac now.
Those customers already know their way around unix; what they
need from Apple is better integrated X-windows support, and
that's what it looks to me like Apple is trying to deliver. I
think that's a good use of a finite resource, and I frankly see
no good reason for Apple to devote many of those resources to
hand-holding Mac users who delve into the unix side ill prepared.
Unix isn't going to stop having a steep learning curve just
because it comes in designer boxes --- if that were the case,
we'd all be using Irix.
I fall in that camp for sure and there is a simple reason,
Bioinformatics. That is the application of computers to the analysis
of biological data. We are just at the beginning of a revolution in
the medical, agricultural and chemical industries. The information we
have from projects like the human genome project is huge and to get
it all analysed and to crack the next problem, to be able to convert
DNA information to protein structure, is a huge worldwide effort,
scales of magnitude bigger then finding gene sequences.
I think Apple knows this and is 'on the ball'
http://www.apple.com/pro/science/gilbert/
Also, try to imagine the global budget for all this research - far
bigger then anything else we have known.
Asam...
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