Yes. Many GMT users with PCs simply install Linux in addition to Windows and boot either operating system. If you do not have or want to install a UNIX operating system on your PC, there are two ways to go: Run a UNIX environment on top of your other operating system. Under Windows you could install Windows Services for UNIX (formerly Interix and OpenNT), which gives you a free, POSIX-compliant environment with the usual UNIX tools (shells, awk, grep).

GMT has been installed on a variety of UNIX systems, including (but not limited to) computers from Cray, Sun, IBM, DEC, HP, SGI, Data General, Apple (Mac OS X), and Next, all running some flavor of UNIX. GMT has also been installed under Linux and MkLinux, which are open source UNIX-like operating systems for PC and Mac OS 9, respectively. GMT also installs under Windows and OS/2. GMT is very portable and should compile on almost any computer.

GMT was created in 1988 by Paul Wessel and Walter H. F. Smith, and has undergone several revisions and major enhancements since then. The current version is 4.2.1. GMT is supported by the National Science Foundation.

of April 2007 it appears that over 15,000 scientists and engineers worldwide are using GMT in their work. This estimate is based on ftp traffic and returned registration forms over the last few years.

The best reference to GMT is an article by Wessel and Smith published in EOS, the transactions of the American Geophysical Union, on Oct 8th 1991 (Wessel, P. and W. H. F. Smith, Free software helps map and display data, EOS Trans. AGU, 72, 441, 1991). We had a news release in EOS that discussed the 3.1 version (Wessel, P. and W. H. F. Smith, New, improved version of the Generic Mapping Tools released, EOS Trans. AGU, 79, 579, 1998).

These may suffice for some users, in which case all that's needed is a Web browser, ID, and PIN. Unfortunately, the current versions of the Web products do not provide full functionality. See Banner Web access below for more details. For many non-Windows computers, software can be obtained which emulates Windows. Banner has been tested successfully at McGill using a couple of these products. See details of platforms and products.

Currently, any Internet-connected Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, Me, or 98 PC with a Pentium 550 MHz or above, 256 MB of RAM or more, and 50 MB of Free disk space.

It is possible to compile the libpq C library, psql, and other interfaces and binaries to run on MS Windows platforms. In this case, the client is running on MS Windows, and communicates via TCP/IP to a server running on one of our supported Unix platforms. The database server is now working on Windows NT using the Cygnus Unix/NT porting library. See pgsql/doc/FAQ_NT in the distribution.

The computers are Dell PowerEdge 850 servers with a single Intel Pentium 4 processor 660 at 3.6GHz and 2MB of 800Mhz cache. All systems have 4GB of DDR2 Ram at 533MHz.

Unfortunately, no. Flight Simulator uses Microsoft's DirectPlay (part of DirectX) for all of the game communication, so that's what FSHost uses to talk to it. Unfortunately DirectPlay is a proprietary system, and so far hasn't been ported to the Unix environment. (There are some systems such as WINE that have made attempts, but so far I don't believe anyone's gotten it to work completely yet.) I'd love to build a Unix version though, so maybe one day we'll be able to.

To run EDH 2.1 on your Unix workstation: You should first make sure that aisws4 has access to your X-server. It is in your xhost file where you specify it. Then you start X-Terminal on your Unix workstation and type in 'edh' or if you don't have your display set you can also type 'edh -dIPaddress:0', where 'IPaddress' is the IP address of your workstation. If it fails to start, what sometimes happens due to a bug in a third party software, which fails to initialize the fonts.

UUCP implementations vary from operating system to operating system. Most UNIX variants include some level of UUCP implementation. UNIX: Most UNIX variants include some level of UUCP implementation: either BNU UUCP (HoneyDanBer), BSD/OS UUCP (BSD 4.3 Version 2), or Taylor UUCP. If your variant does not have a UUCP implementation, you may wish to consider obtaining the Taylor UUCP sources from any FTP site that mirrors the GNU archives. The Linux UUCP HOW-TO document

Elma was programmed to Win98. It has a bug which affects the lagging under XP. The bug is fixed in the Elma 1.2 version. To get even smoother Elma you need to tweak your system a bit more. Read more on the Tweaking page.

No. There is no plan to move DesktopGarp to platforms other than the Intel/Windows platform in the near future. Although its core libraries are developed in ANSI C++, which is portable to other platforms, the client software that uses those libraries is written in MS Visual Basic. Moving it would require a new client tool using a native interface implementation framework, or Java. There is little demand from users to move it to another platform.

Unix hardware and operating systems are year 2000 compliant at least until 2019 or so. However, the application software used on UNIX computers may not be year 2000 compliant.

Yes. GMT is written in ANSI C and is POSIX and Y2K compliant. Furthermore, it can read time-series data that are "Y2K-challenged" (i.e., 2-digit years only).