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From: webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Porting Macsyma to sun3s
Message-ID: <208@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 15:25:51 EST
Article-I.D.: athos.208
Posted: Fri Nov 13 15:25:51 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 10:08:35 EST
References: <81900004@sfu_taurus> <3068@psuvax1.psu.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: LICENSED SOFTWARE

In article <3068@psuvax1.psu.edu>, ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) writes:
> In article <81900004@sfu_taurus> stevec@sfu_taurus.cs.sfu writes:
> >The sad part is that somebody (for some reason) is buying the thing.
> >My boss wants me to try porting the system to run on a sun3  running 
> >a 4.2 equivalent version.  
> >I am apprehensive about this. 
> I would be apprehensive too as the Symbolics people license and sell a
> version of MACSYMA for the Sun.  Tell your boss that whoever is buying
> the Sun should fork over the cash and get a licensed copy.
> Universities get a pretty reasonable discount from Symbolics.

The issues of rights on MACSYMA software are probably even more exotic
than those with regards to GNU emacs.  The Symbolics people have no
more of a corner on this market than Unipress does on Emacs ports.
Besides different MACSYMA variants, there are also a number of
alternative symbolic math programs available for the Sun workstation.
Most of this sort of software is developed at University research labs
so it is usually offered on a different basis than regular commericial
software.

For more details, see the news group sci.math.symbolic (see the list
of active news groups in news.lists).  Incidently, ``symbolic'' refers
to ``symbolic mathematics'' and NOT ``Symbolics.''

--------- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)

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