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From: MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Gorrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maple on amiga (was mathematica)
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Date: 13 Feb 89 04:58:38 GMT
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Maple was originaly a program written for mainframe computers.  I know it
exists for VM/CMS, UNIX, and maybe VMS operating systems.

Maple is a math program that provides a wide range of statistical analysis and
calculus functions, with a flexibility of choosing between speed and accuracy.

It is  also a Symbolic math program, meaning it could enter stuff like

    lim        sin(x)           and it could parse this.
    x -> 0     ------
                 x

Maple 4.0 was completed for the Amgia and Macintosh, however the developers
decided not to release it until they had caught up with the mainframe version
of Maple, which was ver 4.2.  They also wanted to add a better graphic
interface, which was at the time limited to ANSI and VT220.  One of the
programers was working on it was Rico Marani (spelling???) at the University
of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.  I went to school there, and I asked him
once a month when they would release it, but he would just say 'next month'.

Eight months passed, and I never heard about it again.  He did say at one time
that it would cost around $400 to $600.

Does anyone else know what became of Maple for the Amiga?

Thanks in Advance


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