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<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear GATE and Windows users,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>with some modifications of the source code it is possible
to run GATE 5.0.0 on Windows platforms without a virtualization software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>As a stand-alone exe file GATE can be executed without Cygwin.
The advantages are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>- required hard disk space: GATE on Windows 1.4 GB
(including ROOT), GATE on Windows with VMware 9 GB<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>- used RAM memory during simulation: GATE on Windows 350
MB, GATE on Windows with VMware at least twice as much<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>- Simulation time for benchmarkSPECT: on my laptop GATE
on Windows is about 20 % faster than GATE on Windows with VMware<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>But the greatest advantage is: Linux is not needed
anymore !!!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>The step-by-step Installation Guide can be downloaded
from here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><a
href="http://www.imagenetz.de/f48792cf5/GATE-Installation-Guide-for-XP-and-Vista.pdf.html">http://www.imagenetz.de/f48792cf5/GATE-Installation-Guide-for-XP-and-Vista.pdf.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marco<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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