malcolm@Apple.COM (Malcolm Slaney) (11/04/88)
Last night there was a presentation on Mathematica by Stephen Wolfram at Stanford. Originally they were going to be demoing Mathematica on the NeXT machine but that wasn't working at first so we got to see it on the Mac. Later they did have it working and after Stephen talk a guy from NeXT made a short presentation. There were a few things said that I hadn't seen mentioned before. 1) They will announce a Fortran compiler with the 1.0 version of the system. No, it won't be bundled but he didn't say how it would be sold. 2) He said that there were two ways that software was going to be distributed. One was via the network. The other was from some unannounced wonderful new means. He wouldn't elaborate. 3) The codec (coder-decoder) is only 8bits (not surprising) and only samples at 8khz. Cheers. Malcolm