ASITIC for Windows NT/2000

You can run ASITIC on a PC (preferably NT or 2000/XP) if you have the Cygwin environment installed. Cygwin is a free library that transforms your PC into a POSIX compliant UNIX operating system.

Porting ASITIC to the Cygwin environment was relatively easy. I also compiled ATLAS on a Pentium 4 to serve as a native BLAS library for the LAPACK code. The results have been very impressive so far.

To run ASITIC under Windows NT/2000:

Download the latest version of Cygwin (make sure it is post 1.3.3 and NOT the previous B20 version).
Make sure you include the X11 libraries in your installation.
Run your X server. For many people this is a commercial product such as Hummingbird's Exceed. There are also many free X servers available which will also work well (for instance the XFree86 port).
Start an xterm with your favorite shell (probably tcsh or bash). A good shell that runs natively is rxvt.
Run the asitic.exe file from the shell. The command line options are exactly the same as the UNIX version.

If you have a really fast PC, you may want to compile an optimized verison of the ATLAS BLAS library. Then link your library with the ASITIC object files to get optimal performance.