Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!know!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!cs.dal.ca!ug.cs.dal.ca!dewolfe From: dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Anarchy for Peace) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Mathematica Message-ID: <1991Mar31.020833.871@cs.dal.ca> Date: 31 Mar 91 02:08:33 GMT References: <2019@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> Sender: news@cs.dal.ca (USENET News) Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: ug.cs.dal.ca In article Michael.Witbrock@cs.cmu.edu writes: >I went to a talk about mathematica 2.0 by Wolfram a week or so ago, and >I asked the (probably inevitable) ``when can I run Mathemeatica on my >amiga'' and he said ``most people with amigas don't want programs like >mathematica, and anyway, it's be too hard to port it to amigaos''. I'm curious what they would have said if you had told them Maple is available on the Amiga... >Leaving aside our inevitable indignation at these claims, there is >something else that he said that might be useful. He said that it is >very easy for them to port mathematica to Un*x machines, and that if it >was to run on an amiga at all, the ``one that runs unix'' would be it. > >So, someone from commodore might like to contact Wolfram research and >talk to them about porting mathematica to the 3000 UX. > >michael -- Colin DeWolfe dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca