Remote Mathematica

[John D. McCalpin]

Mathematica has been much touted for its separate front-end and kernel
sections. I am looking to purchase some equipment in the near future and
would like to know if this really works between different vendors equipment.

Specifically, can I start up the Mathematica front-end on a NeXT
machine and run the kernel remotely via TCP/IP ethernet on a SGI IRIS 4D?
The 4D machines should be MANY times faster than the NeXT at running the
kernel, especially for the operations that use hardware floating-point.

Thanks for any info....
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John D. McCalpin - mccalpin at masig1.ocean.fsu.edu - mccalpin at nu.cs.fsu.edu