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Re: almanac software
From: Hal Mueller
Date: 2002 Mar 8, 11:23 -0800
From: Hal Mueller
Date: 2002 Mar 8, 11:23 -0800
At 6:54 PM +0000 3/8/02, Herbert Prinz wrote: >Where commercial computer programs are concerned, this is mostly a >thing of the >past when computers were so slow and small that one had to make compromises. >Nowadays, when all almanac programs come on CD roms and need 64 MB of memory >just to bring the first window onto the screen, there is very little >justification for truncating the theory of the moon after 200 terms.Some of us (Jay and I, at least!) are still producing commercial almanac software for platforms that don't have CD drives or 64 MB of memory! Hal