Hi Adele,
Any OS that supports Java 2 and Java3D will work. Sun
supplies these for Windows, Solaris and Linux (I guess
the Linux Java3D comes from Blackdown). If there are no
other factors, I'd probably pick Linux. I think the fastest
Java implementation is supposed to be the one from IBM for
Linux.
I suspect others on this list know more than I do about
these matters, so hopefully you'll here from them.
Cheers,
Bill
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Adele Cutler wrote:
> Thanks for the parallel coordinates help, Bill!
>
> Now I have what is maybe a really dumb question.
>
> Is there a preferred machine/OS/development environment
> for VisAD?
>
> I'm asking because I need to buy a new computer and I
> don't know what to buy. I'm very comfortable with unix,
> which I currently use with X-win32 from a PC. I've used
> sparcs in the past and I'm comfortable with them too.
> I've been using IBM Visual Age for Java and this seems
> very nice, but it's my understanding that this only works
> on a PC. So I'm torn...
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Adele.
>
>
