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From: ricom@microsoft.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: symbolic math environment for the Amiga
Keywords: math, amiga
Message-ID: <7600@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 89 04:44:45 GMT
References: <1092@jtsv16.UUCP> <971@censor.UUCP>
Reply-To: ricom@microsoft.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <971@censor.UUCP> hugh@censor.UUCP (Hugh D. Gamble) writes:

>The current version on the Amiga is supposed to be 4.2.
>It runs on an A1000, so it aught to run on a 500.
>You probably need 1M RAM, & a system without a hard disk
>might not be exactly wonderful to use.

Not only is it supposed to be Maple 4.2 but it actually is Maple 4.2
(surprise!).  Maple is "well behaved", it will run on all sorts
of Amigas with all sort of kickstarts, it might even still run under
v1.1 but I never tested it there.  You must have a hard drive or some
other mass storage device which can hold the whole Maple library (2
or 3 megabytes -- can't remember off hand).  I even know of one person
who is using the Ameristar Ethernet and gets the libraries etc.  over
NFS.  If you plan on doing any meaningful computations with Maple,
you should have at least 1 megabyte of memory.  It will work with less
but you'll basically get a lot of out of memory messages when you least
want them.  For very large/recursive computations I've set just the
stack to be 300k!  But I digress...

I would be very disappointed if there was any reasonable hardware configuration
which Amiga Maple would not run on.  Current or future.

	-Rico

P.S.  Hi Hugh!

P.P.S.  Hi Mom!

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