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From: u545731798ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu (L. Greg DeMichillie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Mathematic requirements (Was: Re: Speed of the Next disk?)
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Date: 27 Oct 88 03:39:25 GMT
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In article <16695@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@kampi.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>In article <11432.1988Oct15.23:26:16@hammer.me.toronto.edu> yap@hammer.me.UUCP writes:
>>I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if Mathematica worked well (<-- fast) with 
>>less memory.
>
>Mathematica "works" on a Mac II with 2 MB RAM and _you_ can do work with 5MB. 

This week I talked with Theo Gray, who wrote the Mathematica front end and
he said that new version (1.1, I think) requires 2.5 MB of RAM on a Plus or SE
and 4 MB on a II.  Since I only have 2MB on my II, I just went home and cried
myself to sleep. :-(


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