From: dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) Subject: Re: Mathmatica like package for linux? Date: 13 Sep 1993 02:28:20 GMT
In article <2C93A519.9361@news.service.uci.edu>, jstern@aris.ss.uci.edu (Jeff Stern) writes:
>If you get any responses to this, I'd be interested. I know there is
>something online which you might try compiling, called maxima-4-155
>which you might be interested in.
It's on sunsite and tsx-11, as maxima.tar.z. It runs under clisp. It is
only accidentally publically available -- you were supposed to send in a fee
(a hefty one) to a company. Said company having closed its doors, the
software becomes available...
But it might not do everything
>you're looking for.
I don't know what that might be, except graphics. For that, use gnuplot. But
maxima is a complete CAS package. It has more on-line help than Mma (not that
that is saying much), and is at places more mathematically careful than Mma.
It is as easy to use as a non-gui Mathematica or Maple, is quite fast, and is
extensible (this may require considerable knowledge of lisp, though).
I myself have sent e-mail to Wolfram asking them
>whether they'd be interested in a port to Linux or 386bsd, and they
>haven't responded.
That is SOP
However, in my latest edition of the Mathematica
>Newsletter they mentioned they are porting to several new
>architectures /systems, including NextStep for Intel. This version is
>currently in the testing stage, which is a far cry from the 'planning'
>stages of some of the other architectures...
>
Someone told me that NeXT executables would run on Intel/NS? There has
been a NeXT Mma for years. Will this not run under Intel/NS?
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for linux Mathematica. We have a much better
chance of seeing Maple. They have a generic X11 interface, which Mma does not,
that is something akin to Mma's notebooks. WRI has been promising notebooks
for Sun for a year or so. Are they out? But Maple has a nice gui for X.
Current one is Motif, though...
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