hastings@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (11/02/87)
I recently wrote to the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo for more information about their symbolic math package "Maple." The response I got was that "McMaple 4.0" runs as a tool under MPW, and 1MB of memory is quite sufficient for all but really large problems. They may produce a stand-alone version later, but MPW is required now (they will have a upgrade policy when newer versions come out). The thing that really cooled me was the price -- $590.00 for individuals (with a 50% discount to educational institutions). This is probably a real bargain for such a powerful system (and all source to Maple libraries is included), but a bit much for a weekend experimenter. They have more elaborate policies for site-licensing. The person to contact at Waterloo is: Benton Leong Symbolic Computation Group, Department of Computer Science University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada (519) 885-1211 (x4474) blleong@watmath.UUCP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Hastings hastings@cory.BERKELEY.EDU ...!ucbvax!cory!hastings cory!hastings@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU