AstroScope will probably just be the green putty and bad poetry part of
VOGON!
Steve.
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From: Starlink development [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Mark Taylor
Sent: 01 August 2005 11:15
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Subject: Re: FW: Astrogrid software destroying PCs...?
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> And I only thought it was in the movies that software could destroy
> the hardware replete with sparks leading to fire and then explosion.
>
> > so far it seems to me that Astrogrid either has no applications or
> > sinister ones that trash your PCs...
>
> I presume that latter doesn't include TOPCAT.
It's not an AstroGrid application yet! And neither is Aladin of course.
> It's not clear who's writing the applications since Starlink closed.
At the AG workshop I went to they were discussing (pretty much next
in their to-do list) writing an application themselves - to be
named AstroScope, it seems to be pretty much along the lines of
what we had in mind for VOGON. This is somewhat annoying, since
I can't really go ahead with a direct competitor to what they're doing
(though I'm not in any sense an AG employee, for one reason and
another I can't afford to - and don't want to - antagonise them)
and I did still have some hope of getting round to VOGON one of
these days.
Mark
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