sherlock@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (04/15/88)
In the April 11th issue of Fortune magazine (pg 90) is mentioned a new symbolic math program called Mathematica developed by Stephen Wolfram here at the University of Illinois. In the article they mention that Mathematica runs on a wide variety of computers, including the new Macs, and Cray supercomputers. I've just seen it running on Unix PC's. Very Impressive! All the graphics are done using PostScript and piped to a windowing PostScript interpreter for display on the screen. I'd say the speed is roughly comparable to a Mac II. Formulae can be output in a number of different forms, including TeX, for direct inclusion in doc- uments. The people who developed it seem uncertain about it's future on the 3b1 as the computer is no longer being manufactured. I don't know if they plan to market it, but I cannot ignore the attractiveness of as pow- rful a symbolic math program as Mathematica on a computer like the 3b1, which can be gotten for about a thousand bucks at a variety of dealers. Tom Sherlock University of Illinois Department of Physics Arpanet: sherlock%uiucuxe@a.cs.uiuc.edu Csnet: sherlock%uiucuxe@uiuc.csnet Bitnet: sherlock@uiucuxe Usenet: {inhp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!uiucuxa!uiucuxe!sherlock Phone: (217) 333-0509