EasyPlot

Article Abstract:

Spiral Software's EasyPlot scientific plotting and data analysis software package for IBM PCs and compatibles can be learned in only a half an hour. The $349 package is very well documented, providing clear, concise and accessible information; the technical support provided by the company is prompt and excellent as well. Input to the program is from data files, including multiple data files and/or multiple columns of data; the six pull-down menus in the program can be used with a mouse or keyboard, and text commands can be placed in input files to run the program. Plotting three-dimensional (xyz) data requires that the x and y increments between data points be equal, and values associated with contour levels must be moved by users. These and other problems with the program are minor, however, and detract very little from an otherwise very useful plotting program.

Product information, Graphics software, Three dimensional graphics, Evaluation, Software Packages, Three-Dimensional Graphics, Scientific Research, Data Analysis, Spiral Software, EasyPlot (Computer graphics software)

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Why Unix will win on the desktop

Article Abstract:

The desktop computer market will be clearly divided by the end of the 1990s between machines running Unix and machines running DOS, with DOS-based systems used primarily as single-user systems for standalone applications. Eventually, DOS-based systems will be found only in the home as distributed, networked computing takes hold in organizations. Network applications require Unix-based solutions because Unix is the only multitasking, multiuser, multivendor operating system currently available. By the end of 1995 all high-end 80386- and 80486-based systems will be running Unix with DOS emulation; minicomputers and mainframes will become servers, and dumb terminals will disappear. OS/2 provides multitasking, but it is still a single-user operating system; it is also not the open system users need. Several Unix myths are de-myth-tified.

Software, UNIX, Trends, Industry Analysis, Microcomputer, Multiuser Microcomputers, Outlook, Software Selection, Product selection, Distributed Processing, MS-DOS

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