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Subject: Re: Maple
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Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 12:43:25 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 20 12:43:25 1987
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In article <5281@jhunix.UUCP> mwh_adev@jhunix.UUCP (JHU UNIX Development Group) writes:
>I would have thought that Maple was too big for an Amiga (it simply *eats*
>resources, both CPU and memory, on JHU's VAX-8600.  But I, too, would
>*love* to hear about an Amiga version!  
>
>					Jon Kay

Nope it's not too big (if you have some extra memory).  I've been using
it for many weeks now.  I imagine that you can't do computations that
are quite as big as you could on an 8600, but for the most part, all
that happens is that Maple ends up doing more garbage collections than
it would need to on a '785 or '8600.  Speedwise, Amiga Maple is about
1/4 the speed of a '785 (1/8th the speed of an 8600 I guess).  If you
need more speed, I imagine that it would run fine on a Turbo Amiga... 
say there's an idea!  Now where am I going to get the $$ for a 68020
board :-(

PS.  Maple also runs on the Mac Plus under MPW.

	-Rico (visiting Waterloo this weekend)