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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
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Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher)
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Date: 17 Jun 91 10:22:10 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.023916.1026@menudo.uh.edu>, jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes:
>In article <71A0D62DC000263C@FANDM> NJ_GOKEMEIJE@FANDM.BITNET writes:
>>What would be the best price/performance numbercruncher??
>
>Sun SparcStation-2, perhaps?  Intel iPSC/860 hypercube?
>
>>How is a MAC SE/30 or II ci running MATHEMATICA?
>
>>Is MAPLE the only math program for the AMIGA.
>
>Probably for the time being.  Several people have hassled Wolfram
>in public regarding Mathematica, but he's got some sort of
>anti-Amiga religion, it would seem.

   Why should he support the Amiga?  I'd like a simple straight answer to
that question.  Why should he support a machine that has an installed base
of fewer than 100,000 systems capable of running Mathematica?  He is not
exactly losing much money by not supporting it, as the MAC market alone
accounts for far more potential than the Amiga ever will, especially in
the U.S.  

   In order for it to be worth Wolfram's while to port Mathematica to
AmigaDOS, Commodore will have to generate a large installed base of A3000
systems in the education market, which accounts for the bulk of Wolfram's
sales.  Needless to say, with the progress that Commodore is making in 
the education market, I do not see this happening.

>
>--
>J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126
>Skate UNIX! (curb fault: skater dumped)
>
>   --  If you're hacking PowerGloves and Amigas, drop me a line. --

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