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From: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Maple on amiga (was mathematica)
Message-ID: <53@snll-arpagw.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 16:50:30 GMT
References: <8902131737.AA11042@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci)
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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In article <8902131737.AA11042@jade.berkeley.edu> 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.
->
->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

Maple 4.2 has been available for the Amiga for quite a while, I have been
using for over four months. It costs $395 and it can be obtained from

	Waterloo Maple Software
	608 Weber Street North
	Waterloo ON
	Canada N2V 1K4
	(519)747-2373

Disclaimer: I have no connection with the the above company.


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