My question: Will there be a Mac version of ACeDB software?
Answers:
> From: Mike Cherry <CHERRY at Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU>
>> Probably. There is a lack of funding but a Macintosh version is wanted by
> everyone involved.
>> No more specifics are available at this time.
> From: tim at eeg.com (Tim Stearns)
> You might want to contact the yeast people at Stanford (Dr. David Botstein,
> Dir); they're trying out various packages on various platforms; one of
> their thoughts was to build a Mac version of acedb, though they weren't
> overly enthusiastic about the idea, last I knew.
> From: baillie at sfu.ca>> Don there is a good cheap PC version, it runs under Linux and it's price
> is good (free). It is available at ncbi. The MAC version has specific
> code written for it and will always lag behind the Unix/PC version as
> the port is not direct. The MAC version is also slow, as compared to the
> sparc or 33 mhz 486 PC version. Running a MAC as an x-server seems to be
> a viable alternative, but MAC-x is slow, but it works fine. The PC linux
> machines will also serve well as X-servers. I think the problem with the
> Mac-X Openwindowss combination is best avoided by NOT upgrading the graphical
> system, except under threat of death!
> I have found that most MAC uses acquire aCedb skills in about a day
> or two, if the database has information that they want retrieve. Maybe you
> will find it easier to introduce when the fly version is available.
> Have you considered using a different graphical front end, TWM or
> motif, some of those are faster and more plesent that Openwindows. They
> work fine with aCedb and require no tweaking to make them run with it.
> I would stick with the generic Unix based aCedb version, as it is much
> closer to the developers and thus will recieve bug fixes, add-ons, and updates
> more easily.
>> dave baillie
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