[geeks] Daily Dose of Unix

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 03:35 PM, William S. wrote:
> Just curious how Irix is best suited for the scientific
> community? Which areas of science and which applications?

   Their FORTRAN compiler technology is very, very good.  They also 
inherited a lot of scientific computing software and know-how when they 
bought Cray.  In addition, their parallel systems scale incredibly well.

         -Dave

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