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Old 4th July 2008
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Originally Posted by DrJ View Post
Look at the applications I mentioned. They are heavy-duty scientific things, and not artistic ones. The Mac has penetrated some of these, but very incompletely.
You mentioned both "advanced image processing tools" and "PDF manipulation tools" both of which are would be used primarily in artistic type environments (video editing labs, advertising firms, etc.). At least where I am, the printing business (that is advertising, book publishing, etc.) is almost exclusively MAC. Sure, they are using proprietary products (i.e., Quark Xpress), but they are running them on MACs.

And maybe this is a misconception on my part, but I also thought that the highest level of scientific computing, in Universities for Mathematics departments and NASA and nuclear physics labs, etc., ran UNIX - usually in huge superclusters - to do the heavy number crunching their disciplines required (think of where UNIX was first developed and evolved).
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