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Subject:    [opensuse-edu] CAD (was what does LTSP\thin client technology mean to you?)
From:       Phil Driscoll <phil () dialsolutions ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-07-20 11:34:15
Message-ID: 200707201234.16164.phil () dialsolutions ! co ! uk
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On Thursday 19 Jul 2007, Ian Lynch wrote:
> > What's PDT?
>
> Parametric design tool developed for the Acorn Archimedes back in the
> late 80s. I think considerably more powerful than Oak Draw but Phil
> Driscoll is better placed than me to say what it can do. I think it was
> written in C so might not be too difficult to port.

The original PDT back in the 80s was indeed written in C, and as far as we 
know, was the world's first interactive parametric CAD package. It's 
successor, Apollonius PDT had similar functionality, but with a very slick 
user interface. We'd love to port that to Linux, as I'm sure that a good 2D 
CAD system would fill a very useful niche, but since the original was written 
in for Risc OS in ARM assembler and BBC BASIC, it would amount to a complete 
rewrite. In any case, a modern graphical application needs to be aware of 
more recent developments such as SVG, so a rewrite would be a good idea 
anyway. It's on our agenda, but so far, has never quite got to the top of the 
list :(

Cheers
-- 
Phil Driscoll
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