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From: phil@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: mathematica for an SE?
Message-ID: <2047.272430ff@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 22 Oct 90 23:01:02 GMT
References: <13431@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <13431@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, mbharrin@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (eat life before it
eats you) writes:
> I have been told that Mathematica will only run on
> a Mac II.  Is this true, or will it run on my SE?  Can anyone
> suggest anything comparable that will run on my SE?

As others have said there is a standard and enhanced version, the latter being
for II-class Macs.  We have the Mathematica Front End, which runs the Mac
interface for Mathematica on (apparently) a 1 Mb Mac (but ours has 2.5 Mb)
while the kernel, runs on a remote Sun SparcStation (with plenty of memory). 
It seems to work very well, and is well worth it if you already have
Mathematica on a workstation, and have TCP access (e.g. Telnet) to it from the
Mac, as the Front End is quite cheap.

On the other hand, we also have Maple, which runs just fine on a 1 Mb Mac and
is a well proven, robust mathematical tool.  It has graphics, but not as
powerful as Mathematica.  I like it.
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Phil Etheridge (phil@waikato.ac.nz)                 /\  /\   -+-,--, .--, ._
Computer Services/Mathematics & Statistics         /  \/  \  / /--< /--  /
University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ.              /        \/ /__.) \_  /