>>Yuck...I'm sure glad I use GINO...3D graphing, surface plots, dynamic
>>view rotation, imports/exports lots of other formats.

>
> Well, the next time you are in 1985, using a 68000 based
> micro with 3Meg RAM (WooT!) and dual 8" floppies, please
> stop by the High Voltage Research Lab at MIT and slip
> me a bootleg copy of GINO that will work on that hardware.
>
> I'd have loved to not have to write (and rewrite) so much
> code -- the final total was only about 50,000 LOC, 66%%
> F77, 31%% 68k asm and 2%% Pascal.  Hacking dynamic memory
> allocation onto F77 using asm and Pascal was a bigger
> pain than all the graphics routines needed. At least when
> the machine crashed, I could fire up my program again and
> recover data from RAM.  Without that capability it would
> probably have taken several more years to finish the PhD.
>
> You work with what you've got or you write your own.  Today,
> we've got a heck of lot, so mostly we don't have to write
> our own. But even a few decades ago ...