[vslist] Matlab on Mac OS X

[Mickey Rowe]

Let's see if I can beat Larry Thibos to this announcement...  I'm
sending this to these two lists because I think there is a fair amount
of interest in these software products within the vision science
community, particularly among those of us using the Psychophysics
Toolbox.

If you're with me in hoping that The Mathworks will change its mind
about whether or not to upgrade Matlab so that newer versions will run
on Macintosh systems...  In my experience, 5.21, the last version of
Matlab made for Macintosh runs unusably slowly if you try to run it
from within MacOS X.  Since MacOS X is a unix system, though, it
should be fairly easy for TMW to port newer versions of Matlab over to
it.  Apparently they are considering it:

  From: Kimo Johnson <kimo@mac.com>
  To: [ recipients list suppressed -- MPR ]
  Subject: MATLAB on OS X

  Hello all,

      If you are interested in MATLAB on OS X, please consider emailing
  tkush@mathworks.com and mkelly@mathworks.com and voicing your
  interest.  I
  read a brief story at:
  http://www.powerpage.org/story.lasso?newsID=9225 that
  says there are talks within the company about a port to OS X.

  Thank you,
  Kimo Johnson
  -- 
  Electro-Acoustic Music Program
  Dartmouth College

For all of us addicted to both Macintoshes and Matlab... take action
and cross your fingers.

--
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@psych.ucsb.edu)