[FairfieldLife] Physicists prefer the Mac OS

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 “When you look around a physics conference now, you see more Macs  
than anything else,” says Cox. “I think that's because they're  
essentially UNIX, and that makes it very easy for everybody who's used  
UNIX in particle physics for the past 20 or 30 years. There's a huge  
code base. We're still using programs written in Fortran quite a lot— 
programs that were written in the '70s and '80s—and they compile  
directly on the Mac. It's very easy to do, as opposed to Windows,  
where it's just a pain to compile all the old legacy programs.”

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