Geomview Manual - Platforms

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# Supported Platforms

Geomview runs on a wide variety of Unix systems. It has been tested on each of the following systems: Linux, FreeBSD, SGI, Sun either (Sun-OS 4.1.x and Solaris), HP RISC, Dec Alpha, RS/6000, and NeXT. Precompiled distributions are available for all of these systems. Using either OpenGL or the generic X11 renderer it can probably be compiled on other Unix systems as well.

There is not a version of Geomview for Microsoft Windows. The main reason for this is that at the time when Geomview was written, personal computers were not fast enough to make interactive 3D graphics feasible, and by the time fast-enough PCs came around, the Geometry Center, where Geomview was developed, was in the process of being closed. The staff started work on a port to Windows but was not able to finish it before the Center shut down.

If you would like to see a version of Geomview for Windows, you can contribute to its development in several ways. See section Contributing to Geomview's Development for details.

There is also no version of Geomview for Macintosh.

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