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Re: AUTOCAD on Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Fri Nov 15 16:44:20 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:37:07 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199611151802.NAA05725@sullivan.bentley.com> from "Mark Hamstra" at Nov 15, 96 01:02:06 pm
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Mark Hamstra wrote:
>
> Zig Herzog <herzog@egghead.psu.edu> wrote:
> > Howdy, is anybody out there who got Autocad (preferrably release 13)
> > running under Linux (whatever flavor). At this point I just want to know
> > whether it is feasible
> > Your help is much appreciated ..... Zig
>
> Nope, it's not possible. Probably won't ever be, either: Autodesk
> looks to be intent on dropping all Unix support with R14, so they
> certainly won't be starting a new Linux port now.
>
> However, even if they did support Linux, it shouldn't make any
> difference to academic-types: I've already done the port of
> Bentley's MicroStation 95 to Linux/Intel, it will be released soon
> as part of the Q4 '96 MicroStation Academic Suite, and MicroStation
> is just plainly a better CAD environment than AutoCAD in the first
> place.
But you're not biased, right? ;)
> If you want fully supported, commercially licensed MicroStation for
> Linux, then you need to stop by
> http://www.bentley.com/products/change-request.html and make your
> desire to purchase commercially licensed MicroStation/Linux known.
> At this point there are no plans to release MicroStation/Linux
> commercially, but that is simply a matter of economics and numbers:
> if enough would-be commercial MicroStation/Linux users make their
> presence known, then Bentley will fully support Linux.
What's the count up to now?
If some more convincing would help... you might want to point out
Mathematica does quite well under Linux.. I would put Mathematica in
the same class of application as Microstation, with similar
markets... both are large, high-end, tecnical applications
> BONUS POINTS:
>
> 1) Every Linux box at Bentley is running Red Hat Linux :-)
> 2) It hasn't been officially announced yet, but I've also completed
> the port of our MasterPiece rendering and animation add-on to
> MicroStation. When the MasterPiece product manager left my office
> yesterday, his last comment was to the effect of: 'O.k., let's put
> it on the Academic CD....'
Cool.
> 3) I've got this SPARCstation20 that I'm going to be adding an ext2-formatted
> hard drive to over the weekend....
Bastard! And here I am forced to run Solaris on a SPARC ELC. *sigh*
At least no one is using this machine for builds anymore. :)
So does this mean there might be a SPARC Linux versino of
Microstation? That would be quite nifty. If that is the case, is
Alpha going to happen anytime soon? That's the only drawback I can
see to Linux on non-Intel machines... the lack of applications. It'd
be great if Alpha Linux started becoming as usable as Intel
Linux... Digital Unix emulation is great, but native apps would go a
long way. For what it's worth, Mathematica on Linux Alpha is awaiting
hardware and time...
--
-Otto
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