hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung) (05/07/91)
Is Macscheme public domain? If so, where could I obtain them? -- H. Seung hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu 3820 Locust Walk #876 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104
mccabe@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Daniel McCabe) (05/08/91)
In article <42722@netnews.upenn.edu> hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Hyunsuk Seung) writes: >Is Macscheme public domain? If so, where could I obtain them? >H. Seung hseung@eniac.seas.upenn.edu 3820 Locust Walk #876 No, it is not. However, the Student Edition (Trade Edition) can be purchased for about $30 from MIT Press (call (800)555-1212 to get the number for MIT Press; I don't have it handy). I have found that MacScheme is an order of magnitude faster than any of the public domain Scheme interpreters which run on the Mac. For $30, you are getting a great deal. A minor limitation of the Trade Edition is that you are limited to 1MB for your address space. If you want or need a larger address space, you need to buy the regular version (which lists for about $100) or MacScheme+Toolsmith (which lists for $400). Cheers, danm Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Lightship Software or MIT Press other than as a satisfied customer.
doner@henri.ucsb.edu (John Doner) (05/09/91)
In article <3729@borg.cs.unc.edu> mccabe@currituck.cs.unc.edu (Daniel McCabe) writes: >A minor limitation of the [MacScheme] Trade Edition is that you > are limited to 1MB >for your address space. If you want or need a larger address space, you >need to buy the regular version (which lists for about $100) or >MacScheme+Toolsmith (which lists for $400). Last Summer the MacScheme distributors sent me a free copy of the Student Edition (one of the perks of being a professor). I'm pretty impressed, and still trying to figure out whether and how to use it in teaching mathematics. But it is not limited to 1 meg; the default partition size under Multifinder is 2700K. John E. Doner doner@henri.ucsb.edu (805)893-3941 Dept. Mathematics, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106