From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Dec  9 10:04:47 2000
Subject: Re: The future of Octave
From: "Manuel A. Camacho Q." <mcamacho at habitat dot co dot cr>
To: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
CC: David DS Barnes <d dot d dot barnes at ic dot ac dot uk>, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 10:04:37 -0600


> Just because something is the latest fad doesn't mean it is worth
> following, particularly if you have very limited resources.

You are right. One of the things that amazes me is that I can do math
computing on my just-out-of-the-closet 486 with 24 MB, a $2 linux distro
and Octave, and getting results on my just-out-of-the-trash 9 pin Cannon
dot matrix printer.

If I need windows, I can run Octave under Emacs, and not using the
resource-killer graphic environments.

-Manuel.



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