From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sat Dec  9 12:33:21 2000
Subject: Re: The future of Octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Manuel A. Camacho Q." <mcamacho at habitat dot co dot cr>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:32:48 -0600

On  9-Dec-2000, Manuel A. Camacho Q. <mcamacho at habitat dot co dot cr> wrote:

| > 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.

When I wrote about limited resources, I was thinking about developer
resources, not computing resources.

jwe



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