kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (10/25/90)
One of our professors is interested in a package called 'Maxima' -- he said it has something to do with creating your own symbolic rules, integration, etc etc. He said that it came out of MIT & that he's used it at Univ. of Delaware in the past. Have any of you heard of it? Any ideas on where I could get ahold of it? Thanks .. Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu [ Sometime this week ... pray! ] For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Also: brendan.kehoe@cyber.widener.edu "It's a distinctly non-trivial task to decompile a stripped, encrypted binary into something that can be understood." - Keith Bostic, on the Internet worm
cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) (10/25/90)
In article <31703@netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
One of our professors is interested in a package called 'Maxima' --
he said it has something to do with creating your own symbolic rules,
integration, etc etc. He said that it came out of MIT & that he's used
it at Univ. of Delaware in the past. Have any of you heard of it? Any
ideas on where I could get ahold of it?
Well, I think you would have more luck if you asked for MACSYMA by its
real name :-). And, yes it is quite famous. In some ways the grandfather
among computer algebra programs which means that it has had LOTS of time
to grow. Last I heard the PC version requires about 40 MBytes of hard
disk space. :-).
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in the laboratory. | edmanc@uciph0.ps.uci.educlj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) (10/25/90)
In article <31703@netnews.upenn.edu>, kehoe@scotty (Brendan Kehoe) writes: > > One of our professors is interested in a package called 'Maxima' -- >he said it has something to do with creating your own symbolic rules, >integration, etc etc. He said that it came out of MIT & that he's used >it at Univ. of Delaware in the past. Have any of you heard of it? Any >ideas on where I could get ahold of it? Undoubtedly he's referring to "Macsyma", which, last I knew, is owned by Symbolics (it did come out of MIT originally). Symbolics is in Burlington MA, and Symbolics.COM is their highest level domain address, but I can't give you a more specific address for information. -- Chris Jones clj@ksr.com {world,uunet,harvard}!ksr!clj
aspgpas@cidsv01.cid.aes.doe.CA (Peter Silva) (10/26/90)
I've heard of it, never used itm but I know how it's SPELLED (always tricky in trademarked stuff): Macsyma is what you're looking for. It's on pretty much any UNIX system, I seem to remember hearing saga's about wanting GB's of memory etc... it's rather large, apparently. I also know some useless history. It's a behemoth that was under development at MIT for at least 10 years with probably at least a couple of dozen different people working on it at different times. So I'm not useful... Peter Silva OS Support psilva@cid.aes.doe.ca Dorval Computing Centre (514) 421-4692 Atmospheric Environment Service
rd0k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Drew Dean) (10/26/90)
I've seen "maxima" as the DoE implementation of Macsyma. It's about $1500 for a site license, I believe. (There may/may not be different prices for educational institutions, if there is, I think that's the educational price.) The version of maxima I've used (very briefly) ran under Austin Kyoto Common Lisp. Sign the KCL license agreement, and ftp rascal.ics.utexas.edu.... Drew Dean rd0k@andrew.cmu.edu