roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (10/14/87)
I just unbinhexed Orbit on my Mac-Plus this afternoon. Our
resident chaos guru remarked (I'm paraphrasing now) "Wow! This is great!
Totally nifty!". This is the guy who brings our Sun-3/160 to its knees
doing these kinds of calculations. It's really kind of embarssing. We
spend all this money on Suns and Vaxen only to have to admit that we need
Macs to do graphics. We huddle in corners and justify the big machines to
ourselves by agreeing that while the Macs are good for pretty pictures, you
can't do "real work" on them. Now this comes along. Harumph!
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view
:-)), Orbit seems to bomb, requiring a system restart whenever you try to
load any of the various predefined configurations, and also when running
some of the selections from the "Equations of Motion" menu. Anybody else
have this problem?
Also, does anybody know if it is possible to enter your own
equations of motion, as opposed to simply adjusting the paramaters on the
existing ones? "What, he wants to run MAXIMA on the Mac too?"
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Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016