Mathematica

[Anarchy for Peace]

In article <kbxBPRW00XNI0HhWxB at cs.cmu.edu> Michael.Witbrock at cs.cmu.edu writes:
>I went to a talk about mathematica 2.0 by Wolfram a week or so ago, and
>I asked the (probably inevitable) ``when can I run Mathemeatica on my
>amiga'' and he said ``most people with amigas don't want programs like
>mathematica, and anyway, it's be too hard to port it to amigaos''.

I'm curious what they would have said if you had told them Maple is available
on the Amiga...

>Leaving aside our inevitable indignation at these claims, there is
>something else that he said that might be useful. He said that it is
>very easy for them to port mathematica to Un*x machines, and that if it
>was to run on an amiga at all, the ``one that runs unix'' would be it.
>
>So, someone from commodore might like to contact Wolfram research and
>talk to them about porting mathematica to the 3000 UX.
>
>michael

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Colin DeWolfe
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