From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 21:25:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13222 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13203 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 21:25:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02126; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:49:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806180249.WAA02126@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: CAD/CAM for Freebsd?? [was: ref] In-Reply-To: from "Jason C. Wells" at "Jun 17, 98 06:54:33 pm" To: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason C. Wells) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:49:35 -0400 (EDT) Cc: djv@bedford.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason C. Wells wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, CyberPeasant wrote: > > >I find that response absolutely baffling. What are they-- Microsoft > >Academic Partners? Are they making you run NT exclusively? (There > >/are/ places like that.) > > Yes, yes. I neglect the standard items (math packages) and the ones that > are not mechanical (spice) in nature. I was thinking of CAD/CAM/FEA > packages when I wrote my reply. There's got to be some. Somebody out there has one. > I am no hacker. Not everyone is. So porting most apps is out of the > question for me, epsecially DOS apps. 16 bit issues. Curses issues. Uggh. > Yeah, true. But 16->32 is usually a piece of cake. Other Unix stuff is usually duck soup, often no-action-needed, otherwise a tweak in a config.h file of some kind. Consider using a work-study or grad student, if you've got any funding. If you're an undergrad, porting stuff is very good practical work, and a nice resume item. Dave -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message