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From: farhi@athena.mit.edu (Bill Hoston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:Mathematica
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Date: 1 Feb 90 04:47:00 GMT
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Ed Bartz writes:
>        Sometime ago I read something about someone porting Mathmatica
>to the amiga.  Did anything ever come of that?  If not, has anyone
>tried using the Mac version on the AMAX?  I hate to buy all that
>hardware just for that, but if necessary.......
>
>                                                Thanks,
>
>                                               Ed Bartz

I have heard various rumors about such a port, but my suggestion is
that you get Maple from Maple Waterloo Software instead.  Maple seems to
enjoy far more acceptance in the world of symbolic mathematics and is
available for the Amiga.  I think the general opinion is that it is both
more able and more stable.  It does lack the glitz of Mathematica's
Macintosh user interface. 

I own the package and am happy with it (though it would be nice to
have an A26x0 board for some speedup).  I believe the recommended
configuration is 1M and a hard drive.  I can't remember how much I
paid for the program.  The list price is either $495 or $395 Canadian.
This was with an educational discount. 

Version 4.2 is available for the present AmigaOS.  Some other
machines are up to version 4.3. When I last spoke to a rep. of WMSI,
he said they were working on v4.3 for AMIX.  (I don't think anyone
will mind my having said that).

	Bill Hoston
	farhi@athena.mit.edu