Subject: RE: Linux in the NY Times today
From: James Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 22:39:36 AKDT
Oh-well, had to check :)
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 17:39, Tom wrote:
>
> On 5 Sep 2002, Jim Gribbin wrote:
>
> > Just out of curiosity, have the surveyors looked into something like
> > VariCAD? I know of a couple of people who use it instead (at least one
> > on the list) of autocad and seem to find it a reasonable replacement. It
> > doesn't seem like in surveying that they would be using the full power
> > of autocad anyway, and since I'm paying the bills ...
>
> Actually, they have a custom land development package they use, based on
> AutoCAD. Apparently what they have is a standard for use in land surveying
> - they love it, except for the fact that they were running it on systems
> with 128MB of memory and generic ATI Rage 128 video cards... Once I
> scrounged them an extra 256MB of memory they were much happier :-)
>
>
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