Grass for PC (fwd)

[W. Fredrick Limp]

Another posting from GIS-L from someone who HAS 
gotten GRASS running on a PC w/ Linux


> Date:         Wed, 28 Oct 1992 01:59:27 GMT
> From: "(alastair small 9209 G)" <asmall2 at MACH1.WLU.CA>
> Subject:      Re: Grass for PC
> To: Multiple recipients of list GIS-L <GIS-L at UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
> 
> In article <GIS-L%92102715001393 at UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> Alan Fiermonte
> <ABZX at CORNELLA.BITNET> writes:
> >Could someone please reiterate the hardware and software requirements
> >for GRASS for the PC including OS's, processing needs, and monitor display
> >needs.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Alan Fiermonte
> >abzx at cornella.cit.cornell.edu
> 
> It was a month or so ago, but I managed to get GRASS v4.0 running (with some
> hitches) on Linux ( a public domain unix for the PC). Some details are
> below:
> 
> 1: Hardware.
> 
> 	I was using a 486/33 with 8Meg RAM, 200Meg HD, Logitech BUS mouse,
> Super VGA card (ET4000 compatible). If you are serious about using a setup
> such as this I would recommend more RAM and definately a larger HardDrive.
> As far as the video card, the version of Linux I was using would only
> support ET3000/4000 and a couple more that I can't recall (actually it's not
> Linux that has a problem with the cards, its X-Windows). I know there was a
> definate push to support more cards (ATI etc), but I'm not sure of the
> status.
> 
> 2: Software.
> 
> 	Linux 0.96c with X11R5. I think the latest release is somewhere
> around 0.98+ (check comp.os.linux for details). Some ftp sites have
> pre-packaged versions of Linux that come with relatively easy to install
> instructions and a host of programs/utilities (i.e. Linux source and
> binaries, Gnu C compiler, Manual pages, editors, grep, etc,etc). They also
> have TCP/IP support now. There is also a growing list of programs that have
> been ported.
> 
> 3: Comments.
> 
> 	There are quite a few changes that have to be made to get it to
> compile, which I could dig out if anyone is interested. There were also some
> problems that I never got round to fixing, but which could be overcome I'm
> sure. On the whole it was a nice system to use and was relatively fast (I
> compared the speed of displaying raster maps with a DEC 5000 station running
> Ultrix and it was significantly faster, bearing in mind that it is a
> multi-user system). If you have the hardware and some spare time on your
> hands, I would recommend trying it out.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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