From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 1 6:53:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19b.rapidsite.net (mail19b.rapidsite.net [161.58.134.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7582937B406 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 06:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19b.rapidsite.net (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 040071737 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:59:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CF8D15D.80ED418F@pythonemproject.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 06:51:26 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: TAD (technology attachment disorder) References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020531224324.01a451e0@threespace.com> <20020601151450.A8658@energyhq.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: chat@freebsd.org X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Miguel Mendez wrote: > > When you look at someone with a unix background using Windows and then > look at another person who learned about computers with Win, you see > they tend to things pretty different, most of the Unix people have > cygwin or u/win installed for when you miss a decent commandline :) > > Cheers, > -- Thats true about Cygwin. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I could compile Fortran programs on Windows without buying Lehey Fortran. And they ran reasonably fast on a 1.8Ghz P4. I was doing an 8000 segment antenna simulation. Took about an hour with 500Mb peak memory usage. Plus Cygwin now has Windowmaker, so I feel right at home. Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message