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Scientists Switch to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the i-try-to-get-out-and-they-pull-me-back-in dept.

Adam Q Salter writes "A Boston Globe article quotes many scientists and engineers who have switched to Apple workstations or have immediate plans to do so. Craig Hunter, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, said 'OS X, I think, is the best Unix I've seen come along, ever.' Scott Sneddon, a senior scientific fellow at Genzyme, is quoted as saying 'OS X is a better Unix development environment than Linux or Silicon Graphics Irix.'"

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  1. Matlab for OS X out for awhile by spicyjeff · · Score: 5, Informative

    Matlab has been out for OS X for awhile now. Latest version is 6.5, same as all other platforms. Spec page here.