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From: ricom@microsoft.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maple on amiga (was mathematica)
Message-ID: <604@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 01:46:40 GMT
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Reply-To: ricom@microsoft.UUCP (Rico Mariani)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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>MOLNARRM@UREGINA1.BITNET (Dennis Gorrie) writes:
>
>
>Maple was originaly a program written for mainframe computers.  I know it
>exists for VM/CMS, UNIX, and maybe VMS operating systems.

All true.

>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

what you type looks like:

	lim(sin(x)/x, x=0);

but yes..., what you see for output looks more like the 2d version Dennis
showed above.

>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.

The big problem was getting documentation and contracts actually...
Maple 4.1 had many improvements which everyone wanted so it seemed wise
to wait.  By the time I could do the port, 4.2 was frozen so I did that
instead...

>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'.

You Spelling is close, it's Rico Mariani, but what's a few i's between
friends anyways.

>Does anyone else know what became of Maple for the Amiga?
>
>Thanks in Advance

Amiga Maple 4.2 started shipping many months ago, if you're interested
contact the Symbolic Computation Group at U of Waterloo and they'll
put you in touch with the right people.  There are quite a few copies
of it out there by now I imagine.  Talk to them about pricing info too,
there are various prices for educational, or professional use.

	-Rico

DISCLAIMER:  Microsoft is in no way affiliated with Maple or the Symbolic
	     Computation Group.  They just happen to hire Waterloo grads.