Xref: utzoo sci.math.symbolic:1092 comp.sys.ibm.pc:41531 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Macsyma for PC? Message-ID: <240@spam.ua.oz> Date: 8 Jan 90 23:00:46 GMT References: <2767@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Reply-To: wvenable@spam.oz.au (Bill Venables) Organization: Statistics, Pure and Applied Maths, University of Adelaide Lines: 12 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <2767@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes: > > Is there one? [ie a version of Macsyma for a PC?] > Isn't this camel-through-the-eye-of-a-needle stuff? (Or trying to teach a pair of elephants to dance in the back seat of a Volkswagen? :-) I think perhaps Maple is a better bet, but smybolic computation is generally BIG bikkies, anyhow. -- Bill Venables, Dept. Statistics, | Email: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5418