trh@ukc.UUCP (T.R.Hopkins) (02/12/85)
We've got both MACSYMA and maple here. The difference is that while
MACSYMA needs a dedicated 11/750 maple will quite happily run with
a number of interactive users + the usual load. The price for the
increase in speed and the decrease in memory use is that maple
does not have all the wonderful built in functions that MACSYMA
possesses.
However for simple algebraic manipulation and for extended precision
arithmetic maple is very good. If you want to do sophisticated stuff
then either you work hard and program it in maple or buy yourself
another vax and run MACSYMA.
Maple is available from;-
Maple Lab,
Symbolic Computation Group,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2L 3GI.
Attention: Benton L. Leong
Tel: 519-885-1211 x3055
or Electronically (sometimes similar to /dev/null !!)
allegra!watmath!watdaisy!watmaple
It cost us $250 (pounds or dollars - who can tell them apart?).
Macsyma is available from Symbolics, Inc., 11 Cambridge Center,
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA (in the US) or Scientific Computer Ltd,
Victoria Road, Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9LW UK .
The cost is around $1000.
Tim Hopkins,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Kent,
Canterbury CT2 7NF
Kent
U.K.
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