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From: nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: mathematica for an SE?
Summary: Check out Theorist and Maple.
Message-ID: <5858@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 23 Oct 90 14:49:05 GMT
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In article <70100023@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> I suggest you practice using mathematica on a 4Mb SE for a while,
> before committing yourself to a $495 program that will run out of
> memory so quickly.  There are other serious limitations to the 3-D
> plotting capabilities in mathematica (like an inability to
> sufficiently influence how the plots are labeled).

You might also want to check out Theorist and Maple.  Both run with
smaller memory partitions than Mathematica (I run Theorist in a 3M
partition with no problem).

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