[APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

Chris Todd christopher.todd at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 09:05:17 PST 2009


On the day WWT was released, they claimed to support Mac, via
Parallels or Virtual PC.  By the next day, however, the only OS listed
as supported was Windows.  Interpret that as you will.

Chris

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
> What I was interested in was the web version (using Silverlight I believe)
> which had the same functionality but was a bit slower. That would work (I'm
> guessing) on the Mac. However there's no sign of it on the website
> (http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/), unless  I'm getting old, or it hasn't
> been released to the unwashed masses. The professional astronomers and
> astronomy students at the talk weren't interested in running it on Windows.
>
> Paul R.



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