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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga & Mathematica
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Date: 10 Feb 89 23:32:02 GMT
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Curiously enough, no one seems to have pointed out that you can't buy
an Amiga 2500 with *less* than three megabytes. I say why not "target"
it at the A2500 buyer, someone ready to invest $4.5K into an Amiga won't
worry about 300 - 400 for a whizzy mathematics analysis program. 

What about Macsyma? Anyone talk to Symbolics yet? They seem to have a 
fairly decent package these days (orders of magnitude better than the
stuff at MIT-XX 7 or 8 years ago.) 

Of course if you are someone who "wouldn't dream" of paying $300 for a 
piece of software then, well, you might have a tough time imagining what
you could do with Mathematica. 


--Chuck McManis
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