Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!news.cs.indiana.edu!purdue!krk From: krk@cs.purdue.EDU (Kevin Kuehl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mathematica for $49? Message-ID: <13194@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 26 Jan 91 18:20:55 GMT References: <1991Jan25.190628.26373@rice.edu> <1991Jan26.053038.27266@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: krk@democretos.cs.purdue.edu (Kevin Kuehl) Distribution: usa Organization: Purdue Univserity Computer Science Department Lines: 32 In article <1991Jan26.053038.27266@agate.berkeley.edu> yongbum@ronzoni.berkeley.edu writes: > Wolfram Research also has educational pricing on the Mac II version. >I think you have to send them some kind of proof that you are a student >together with the order. Rumour has it that they are having a >special 25% discount offer on top of this educational discount until >February, together with free upgrade to v2.0 when it comes out. Sounds >pretty good to me (if you really need the program, that is). I talk to Wolfram around 10 days ago and here is what they told me. There are 3 educational discounts: 1. Standard version. This is ``normal'' Mathematical we all know and love. This had a 25% discount until February. 2. Enhanced version. This uses the FPU on the machine to do the calculations, but otherwise is no different. This also has the 25% off discount until February. 3. IF you are a student, you are eligible for the student version. From the person's on the phone explanation, this is simply just the standard version available only for students. It has no 25% discount. The student version is $139.00. The 25% discount is for all platforms that Mathematica runs on and is available until February 15, 1991. It also looks like there is no such thing as a MacII and a Mac SE, etc. version. It looks Mathematica for the Mac runs on all machines with 4 Meg of memory. -- Kevin Kuehl krk@cs.purdue.edu kuehlkr@mentor.cc.purude.edu