mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) (08/04/87)
I'm looking for any PD or commercial sources or binaries of Macsyma
that will run on this Microport Unix System on the 286. Any ideas?
-Mike
ihnp4!meccts!cimcor!mikejbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) (08/05/87)
A competing package is MuMath, from Soft Warehouse 3615 Harding Av Honolulu Hawaii 96816 808-734-5801 This is a symbolic math package written in a quaint but charming dialect of LISP, for which an interpreter is provided. There are versions for the Apple II and IBM PC, and recently a modern version for the PC has been released. I've used the older version on some messy vector calculus problems in my solid modelling work, and found it quite useful in dealing with the grunt work of algebra and calculus. The heuristics aren't very powerful, but the algorithms for the standard solution methods all seem to work. Microsoft resells this package, when they remember it is in their product line, but the developers are in Hawaii and one may as well deal directly with them. Sometimes one of the developers answers the phone. John Nagle