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Subject: Re: Unix on Wintel Boxes
Author: Dan Bohlen
Date: 1999-01-20 12:21:00Anyone use PERL to perform the UNIX tasks listed below?
Eric Miller wrote:
> From: "Eric Miller"
> I hear you. We have switched over almost totally to
> WindowsNT/Intel systems because of the price
> performance.
> So far no word from ANSYS Inc on Linux. I know it
> was brought up by some users at the last conference.
> I think they need to be sure that it is a stable
> platform that won't turn into a support nightmare!
> While we wait for that, you should try what I did.
> Being a UNIX weenie from way back, I almost died when
> I lost my korn shell. So I looked around and found
> a product called Interix (formerly OpenNT).
> This is a POSIX compliant system that runs under Windows NT
> and gives you all of your UNIX functionality.
> It also comes with the exceed X-Windows server as an option.
> So when I run ANSYS, I run it under NT, then I open up
> some X-terms and use VI, grep, awk, perl etc... to build
> scripts and manipulate files. It is a very nice compromise.
> With all of the options you can add, you can even use it
> as a motif/unix development platform.
> Check it out at: http://www.interix.com
> Hope this helps
> Eric
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gross [mailto:dgross@d...]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 7:15 AM
> To: XANSYS Post
> Subject: [xansys] Unix on Wintel Boxes
> From: David Gross
> Dear xansys,
> All this talk about processor performance has whetted my appetite for our
> next ANSYS box. I really enjoy the elegance and control offered by the
> Unix system that I'm currently on, but am envious of the price/performance
> of Wintel systems.
> Is ANSYS currently supported on Unix running on a Wintel box (e.g., Linux)?
> If not, are there plans to do so in upcoming releases?
> Best Regards,
> David Gross
> Dominion Engineering, Inc.
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