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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Maple will support math coprocessor
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Date: 9 Nov 90 01:03:14 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.214217.21840@maytag.waterloo.edu> giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA (Eric Giguere) writes:
>Here is the latest report from our technical department:
>
>The kernel of Maple is finished.  The projected user interface would 
>be very similar to the X Maple. In fact, our idea is to copy the X 
>Maple features into the Amiga machine. This will be finalized 
>once I receive and read through all the manuals. 
>
>Maple V for the Amiga will also support the 68881 math coprocessor.
>For the graphics part, we will have both POSTSCRIPT and the IFF format. 

	Can you forward them this question: will MAPLE use 2.0
specific features, namely gadtools.library and the standard file
requester?
	This also leads to a Commodore question: would it be
possible for developers who license the operating system to
provide gadtools.library and asl.library on disk format to 1.3
owners. This would provide 2.0 compatibility to people
automatically, making developers more likely to utilize the
features of the operating system. I am afraid that developers
will see 1.5 million A500s and .5 million other machines, only
some of which have 2.0, and decide not to support 2.0
enhancements. This would be an easy way around that, to an
extent.
>
>==========================================================================
> >This is Eric again... hope that clears up the confusion.  I
hope that nobody >threatened the folks at Maple in those "angry
letters"!  > >-- >Eric Giguere giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA > Quoth
the raven: "Eat my shorts!" --- Poe & Groening


	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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