Platforms

GENESIS and its graphical front-end XODUS are written in C and run under UNIX on Sun (SunOS 4 or Solaris 2), DECstation (Ultrix), Silicon Graphics (Irix 4.0.1 and up) or x86 PC (Linux or FreeBSD) machines with X-windows (versions X11R4, X11R5, and X11R6). IBM RS6000s (AIX), HPs (HPUX), DEC Alphas (OSF v2 and v3) and the Cray T3Dhave been successful in compiling and running, though our experience is limited. We have received reports of use of GENESIS on the Power Macintosh with the current (ver. 2.1) developers release of Mac Linux, but have not tested it ourselves. We welcome feedback on experiences with these platforms.

Other platforms may be capable of running GENESIS, but the software has not been tested by Caltech outside of these environments. Although GENESIS may be ported to the Windows95 and NT operating systems at some time in the future, we currently recommend using a disk partition with the freely available Linux operating system for running GENESIS on a PC.

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