[ydl-gen] Slow ibook X11 (2D)

[Warren Nagourney]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the link.  It was an interesting discussion and brought  
back memories of my extremely idiosyncratic approach to computers over  
my 40 years as an experimental physicist. Before retiring (2 years  
ago), I used NeXTstations (<$100 from University surplus) for my DAQ  
and they were faster and better in many ways than modern machines with  
100x more CPU power, memory size and disk size. The built-in DSP and  
very well-written and efficient OS helped. My last grad student didn't  
like it since it was a one-off and didn't help him learn about NI  
products (which I hated).

While I am sure I could find an open source data analysis tool suite  
to replace Igor, the business of doing accurate and convenient  
drafting is not as easy. All of the inexpensive drawing apps lack the  
precise and extremely easy to use "snap" features of the Ashlar  
products. I find that using other products are very tiring - getting  
lines to connect with some precision and frequently tiny annoying gaps  
are revealed when printing. Claris CAD copied the Ashlar approach  
(badly, in my opinion) and dropped the product when Ashlar brought out  
the lawyers. Many drawing products have similar features, but none are  
very convenient, in my experience.

Cheers,

Warren Nagourney

On Jan 31, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Stephen Harker wrote:

> Hi Derick and Warren,
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:29:55PM -0800, Warren Nagourney wrote:
>> Thanks, Derick. I will look into R.
>
> I have been very satisfied with R for many purposes.  On the question
> of other, useful, packages there was a recent article in
> http://slashdot.org/ on a similar issue.  This was titled: Open Source
> Software For Experimental Physics? and is given at this url.
>
> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/30/1443203
>
> You may be aware of the thread resulting from this article and/or the
> programs that were recommended by different people.  If not, it could
> be worth looking into to see if there is something useful to you
> listed.  I would expect that several would run under OSX as well as
> Linux.
>
> -- 
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