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From: krowitz@mit-richter.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  MACSYMA for the Apollo DOMAIN
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 16:00:11 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 16:00:11 1987
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The problem with MACSYMA is that MIT sold an exclusive license for
the software to Symbolics, the lisp machine manufacturer. They were
*very* slow in porting the software to other machines (it was already
available for the DEC 10/20 on which is was developed) since they
would prefer to sell you a lisp machine. It is an execellent pieces
of software, but it is overpriced. If you have a VAX/VMS system you
should be able to get a copy of MACSYMA from the national software
center, or DOE (or someone like that in the government). DOE paid
MIT to port MACSYMA onto the VAX (seperately from the Symbolics deal)
so they own a copy which they redistribute. There are some competing
packages written in C. Unfortunately, I can't remember their names
offhand. Maybe someone else can recall them?


 -- David Krowitz

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