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From: farhi@athena.mit.edu (Bill Hoston)
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Subject: Re: Amiga & Mathematica
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Date: 2 Feb 89 21:37:16 GMT
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Stephen Wolfram made a few visits to the Boston area late last year
and I got the opportunity to speak with him.  He said that there is
work being done on an Amiga port of Mathematica (he said it wasn't too hard
since the kernel was the same on all systems).  He complimented the
computer and said that it was a nice platform for the program.  At the
time he said that he hoped to have the program running on a very basic
system (he even mentioned the possibility of a rom card for A500's).
He gave me the impression (it was more than an impression) that the
biggest stumbling block for the project was Commodore.  Anyway,  I
just wanted to say that I don't think the program will call for lots
of extra memory or a hard drive (take my word for what it is worth).  

	Bill Hoston
	farhi@athena.mit.edu