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From: jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga & Mathematica
Keywords: only maybe ...
Message-ID: <3026@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 89 14:26:02 GMT
References: <00VO0520TZ1010ep0M.@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
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In article <00VO0520TZ1010ep0M.@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>, kim@uts.amdahl.com (Kim DeVaughn) writes:
> 
> 
> especially with an 020/881, etc), I dashed off a note to Nancy Blachman a few
> days ago, WRT the Amiga port supposedly "in progress".
> 
> Her reply was:
> 
> 
> > Kim,


> > without virtual memory, Mathematica requires approximately 3 meg
> > of memory and not many Amiga users have this much.
> >
> >
> 

What!?!?!? How much memory does it take to run in a Mac. The book I
have seen on Mathematica indicates that it runs on Macintoshes, not
only Mac II's. I can't believe there are that many more folks out
there who have 3 MB on good ole Mac I's.

Anyway, Even if it is 3 Megs on a Mac, I am curious if they have investigated
the operating system on the amiga. Seems like they could save some memory
by writing an intelligent port.

While this memory savings may not be much, I expect there are many more
2.5 MB amiga owners than there are owners with more than 2.5 MB. And
(I hope) the intelligence of the Amiga OS wrt Mac OS should make it possible
to realize this 0.5 MB savings.

Finally, the comment about Virtual Memory, well, wouldn't overlays be
possible here? While some of the beauty of Mathematica is that you can
do "piping" (actually stuff like graph(Fourier(dataset))) there ought
to be some commands that are mutually exclusive.

I would like to hear comments on this before I send Nancy my questions.


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