[GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread razmjooeis
I am reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System It claims: Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by Release 7x in the next three months. 7x was released in two flavors: 32-bit and 64-bit. Manifold 7x was the first ever 64-bit GIS application in the industry. Does

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread Andreas Neumann
I am also pretty sure that QGIS (Quantum GIS) was available as a 64bit version before 2006. I don't know exactly when 64bit QGIS became available, though. I personally started with QGIS in about 2006 and there was already a 64bit version. Andreas On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:40:22 -, wrote:

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:40 PM, razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk wrote: I am reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System It claims: Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by Release 7x in the next three months. 7x was released in two flavors: 32-bit and 64-bit.

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread razmjooeis
Excellent...that's fixed for them! Cheers Sab On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:40 PM, razmjoo...@faunalia.co.uk wrote: I am reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System It claims: Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by Release 7x in the next three months. 7x was

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread Alex Mandel
I don't think non-commercial enterprises get considered in Industry sometimes. So the statement is sorta true from their perspective (though not in reality). Also in the context of applications that run on a Windows OS it wouldn't be surprising because there wasn't a stable 64 bit windows back

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread razmjooeis
I totally agree with you, but the point is the statement is bold without any extra information. It was a bit more of a marketing! It can be re-written as: In comparison with ESRI and Mapinfo, Manifold was the first Windows OS GIS software to release 64 bit version. Cheers Sab I don't think

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread Hamish
razmjooeis wrote: I am reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System It claims: Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by Release 7x in the next three months. 7x was released in two flavors: 32-bit and 64-bit. Manifold 7x was the first ever 64-bit GIS

Re: [GRASS-user] when was the first release of Grass 64 bit?

2011-02-02 Thread Hamish
... just doing a reverse search through the grass6 CVS changelog, the first relevant CVS log message I see is: 2000-01-02 13:29 markus * src/CMD/generic/is64bit.sh: Bill Hughes: automatically choosing the diglib64 library at compile-time for 64-bit machines As this is just 4