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From: afg@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (andrew.goldberg)
Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Macsyma for PC?
Summary: yup
Message-ID: <3548@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 90 14:39:52 GMT
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In article <2767@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn) writes:
> 
> Is there one?

	Yup.  From Computer Aided Mathematics Group, Symbolics, Inc.
	617-221-1250 or 800-622-7962.

	Pros: Claims to be complete port of MACSYMA to pc.

	Cons: Requires 386.  Also 6MB RAM, 20MB free disk space,
	      EGA or CGA or VGA, and Windows/386. According to 
	      a recent review in PC Magazine,
	      they have not added any command line editing or
	      graphics to the original MACSYMA system.  By current
	      PC standards, the user interface is primitive.
	      Very Expensive: $2,900 (as of 5/89)

	If your needs and budget are modest, you might get by with Wolfram's
	Mathematica.  I paid $995 for that.  You can probably get
	reasonable educational discounts if you are associated with
	SUNY.

	Andy Goldberg
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	Parsippany, New Jersey
	andrew.goldberg@att.com