Don.Gilbert@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (Don Gilbert) (08/17/90)
I'd like to hear from others in molecular biology about your favorite flavor of multi-user computer operating system. We are using a VMS Vax for GCG software, but I am looking rather longingly for Unix computers in the future. VMS has an air of obsolescence about it -- today's programmers write for Unix first, and if time permits, someone ports it to VMS. I won't touch the VMS file handling system, whereas Unix is duck soup. The good sequence analysis software from GCG is the only thing really tying us to VMS, and it sounds like a Unix version is near. Could everyone who has an opinion on what the most powerful &/or most popular multi-user system for molecular biology will be in the next 5 years, please reply to me. I will summarize the responses with a followup message. Let me also know if you are a molecular biology software developer. Also, if you have a favorite multi-user/workstation computer (e.g., SUN SParcstation, NeXT cube, Silicon Graphics IRIS, Vax, etc.), I'd like to hear what it is. -- Don Don.Gilbert@iubio.bio.indiana.edu biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405, usa