Depends on the kind of Mac you are talking about.
A Mac that is Intel based can run Windows and Apple's OS/X
in various ways and hot swap between them.
A PowerPC Mac (mine) doesn't have a native Axiom mostly
because of developer resources as well as the switch to the Intel
processor.
I have started working my way toward getting GCL native and then
trying to determine what the Axiom build runs into.
For the desperate, you could probably get away with running
MS's VirtualPC product on the Powerbook; it emulates the Intel
instruction set and runs Windows. Speed had better not be your concern.
The product may have been pulled but mine still updates Windows.
I think this get the current state of things about right.
Demitri Muna wrote:
Hi Gene,
Thanks for the link - I've never come across that before. It doesn't
seem to run on a Mac though...
Demitri
On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:33 AM, Eugene Surowitz wrote:
There is another alternative:
I use the AXIOM the free and open source algebraic system that
can be run on a Linux that operates as an application on windows;
no partitioning or dual boot necessary.
See the section "Axiom on Windows" lower down on this page:
http://axiom.axiom-developer.org/axiom-website/download.html
Cheers, Gene
Demitri Muna wrote:
Hi Eugene,
Thanks for the information. Right now (partly based on the
feedback) I'm considering requiring Windows users use Linux, either
through an installation on a flash drive, a virtual machine, or
partitioning their drive.
Cheers,
Demitri
On Apr 14, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Eugene Surowitz wrote:
I regularly use the "cygwin" on MS Windows;
it provides a unix-like environment with many packages of tools.
I think "mingw" does the same, but I currently don't use it.
Cheers, Eugene Surowitz
Demitri Muna wrote:
Hi,
As I announced last week, I'm running a scientific programming
workshop in June (deadline to apply is tomorrow!). The
participants will be bringing their own laptops running OS X,
Linux, and Windows.
There are several tools that I want to introduce, but for some
things I am really only familiar with OS X (and to a lesser
degree, Linux). I'd like to see if there is anyone who works
regularly on Linux or Windows who can assist me in finding the
right tools on those platforms. An example of the tools/tasks I
want to illustrate:
- A free IDE (python/C++/etc.).
- SVN gui (or at all on Win)
- Running gcc (on Win)
- Code profiling / debugging
- SQLite (Win - command line interface?)
- Running fuse
- etc.
While I have some ideas of what is available (e.g. Eclispe), I
don't really know how to use these tools on non-Mac platforms and
would like someone who is familiar with them and uses them
regularly.
Of course, a valid question is whether one should bother with
Windows in scientific research, so if anyone actually does day to
day data analysis in Windows I'd be curious to hear from you even
if you don't have the time to help.
Cheers,
Demitri
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Demitri Muna
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University
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Demitri Muna
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 992-7453
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Demitri Muna
Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
New York University
4 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 992-7453