Re: RE: NONMEM as a dll

From: Nick Holford <n.holford@auckland.ac.nz> Subject: Re: RE: NONMEM as a dll Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 10:57:04 +0000 (GMT) > > From: Pascal Girard [SMTP:pg@upcl.univ-lyon1.fr] > > Sent: Friday, December 04, 1998 11:51 AM > > To: Sale, Mark > > Cc: 'nmusers@c255.ucsf.edu' > > Subject: Re: NONMEM as a dll > > My personal experience (I'm not a specialist in computer) is that > > finding tricks to trick the MS Windows 95 and NT "gaz factory" > > gives me an headache. That why I do prefer to keep a computer > > running under UNIX and implement what you suggest using some > > very simple C-shell. The Linux system seems now to become a very > > good UNIX alternative to MS Windows and has the advantage of being free. I agree with this advice. Some limited benchmarking of Linux suggests it may be a much as 3 times faster running NONMEM on the same machine compared with running in a DOS shell under Windoze. -- Nick Holford, L226,Dept of Neurology,OHSU 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road,Portland,OR 97201-3098 n.holford@auckland.ac.nz,(503)494-4778,fax 494-7242 http://www.phm.auckland.ac.nz/Staff/NHolford/nholford.htm