Review of Visualisation Systems

1.2 Systems under review

• AVS: Commercial product from AVS Inc., supported in the UK by AVS/UNIRAS Ltd. AVS version 5.01 was reviewed and some comments about version 5.02 and the contents of version 6 have been made.
• IBM Data Explorer: commercial product from IBM Inc., supported in the UK by IBM(UK) Ltd. IBM DX version 2.0 was reviewed.
• IRIS Explorer: commercial product initially from Silicon Graphics Inc., bundled with Silicon Graphics workstations. It is also available from NAG Ltd. on other workstations and is supported by them (not bundled). It has been announced that the next version (3) will be unbundled from Silicon Graphics and available from NAG Ltd. IRIS Explorer version 2.2 was reviewed.
• Khoros: commercial product from Khoral Research Inc., distributed via a Free Access License. Currently the version 2.0 Developer's Release is only available via anonymous ftp. The Khoros Software, including a 7 volume manual set, Khoros 2.0 source code and the most commonly used binaries on CD-ROMs, will be distributed worldwide by Prentice Hall, Inc. in the second quarter of 1995. Khoros 2.0 (Beta release) was reviewed.
• PV-WAVE: commercial product from Visual Numerics Inc., supported in the UK by Visual Numerics Ltd. A related system IDL (http://sslab.colorado.edu:2222/projects/IDL/idl_ssl_) is also available in the UK from Floating Point Systems Ltd. PV-WAVE and IDL have a common origin but have since diverged. We do not cover IDL in this review because of the similarities with PV-WAVE. PV-WAVE version 4.2 was reviewed.

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