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| | Scientific computing: Apple's next big leap? | InfoWorld | News | 2003-10-24 | By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service |
 | | Tribble, one of the designers of the original Macintosh user interface, said that with the advent of the Power Mac G5 and the OS X operating system, the Macintosh now has the Unix backbone, 64-bit processing power, Windows interoperability, and open source credibility to be a viable computing platform in the life sciences space. |
 | | Because OS X is based on the BSD (Berkeley System Distribution) version of Unix, developers are able to take advantage of the wide array of open source applications written for Unix, Tribble said. |
 | | They are also able to create open source applications, like the iMOL molecular visualizer software that take advantage of the Macintosh's Aqua user interface. |
| www.infoworld.com /article/03/10/24/HNappleleap_1.html (1240 words) |
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