Xref: utzoo sci.math.symbolic:1614 comp.sys.mac.apps:1112 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!seaman.cc.purdue.edu!ags From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic,comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Mac and Mathematica: Is an SE/30 enough? Message-ID: <12939@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 10 Aug 90 21:15:13 GMT References: <22758@muvms3.bitnet> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) Followup-To: sci.math.symbolic Organization: Purdue University Lines: 14 In article smithw@hamblin.byu.edu (William V. Smith) writes: >We gave up trying to do much with Mathematica on Macs. It is simply >to much of a memory hog. We installed some NeXTs instead. Seems to >work fine there. I find that quite a bit can be done on a 68020 Mac II, running Mathematica in a 5 Mb or larger Multifinder partition. It is noticeably slower than a NeXT, but I'm sure an SE/30 would help considerably. The main problem is that you have to be prepared to restart the program occasionally on a Mac, because Mathematica is only moderately successful at reclaiming unused memory. -- Dave Seaman ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu