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From: perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Maple V news for Amiga
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Date: 7 Nov 90 15:38:56 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.191819.13114@athena.mit.edu>
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In-reply-to: rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (Richard L. Carreiro)

In article <1990Nov6.191819.13114@athena.mit.edu>, rlcarr@athena (Richard L. Carreiro) writes:
>
>>In an effort to accommodate the needs of all Amiga users, this new
>>version will probably not support the math coprocessor (since many
>>Amiga machines are not equipped with this coprocessor).

>It's too bad - I've seen Maple 4.4 on Suns, and it's REALLY nice.
>I'm willing to spend the $400+ for Maple V on the Amiga, but I can't
>justify it if the program will not take advantage of a major part
>of my machine - a part which is designed to do high-precision math 
>quickly.
>
>Am I outta line feeling this way?  Comments folks?

This may be a case of "be careful what you ask for."  Some software
companies price their software on different platforms on the basis of
performance.  They would charge more for a sparcstation version than
for a sun 3, even if "porting" meant just recompiling.  Some even
charge more for a sun3/260 than a sun3/50 (both 68020, but the first
is faster).

Would you be willing to pay as much as a sun3 license for an amiga
version with coprocessor support?  

-don perley

perley@trub.crd.ge.com