Scientific Graphical Displays on the Macintosh
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
In many organizations scientists have ready access to more than one computer, often both a workstation (e.g., SUN, HP, SGI) as well as a Macintosh or other PC. The scientist commonly uses the work station for `number-crunching` and data analysis whereas the Macintosh is relegated to either word processing or serves as a `dumb terminal` to a larger main-frame computer. In an informal poll of my colleagues, very few of them used their Macintoshes for either statistical analysis or for graphical data display. I believe that this state of affairs is particularly unfortunate because over the last few years both the computational capability, and even more so, the software availability for the Macintosh have become quite formidable. In some instances, very powerful tools are now available on the Macintosh that may not exist (or be far too costly) on the so-called `high end` workstations. Many scientists are simply unaware of the wealth of extremely useful, `off-the-shelf` software that already exists on the Macintosh for scientific graphical and statistical analysis.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 145963
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9411140--Absts.; ON: DE95017252
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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