Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!mhuxo!mhuxt!evans From: evans@mhuxt.UUCP (Steve Crandall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Mathematica on the Mac Message-ID: <2412@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: 7 Jul 88 12:14:23 GMT Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ Lines: 17 I have been using a "beta" version of Mathematica on my Mac for a few weeks now. Symbolic algebra programs tend to have their own flavors and uses - Reduce is very different from Maple is very different from SMP is very different from Macysma, etc... If you have a background with SMP you will find Mathematica an extension of that paradigm. The front end seems to be done very well -- you can run a Mathematica "kernel" on a variety of machines and connect to it with a display kernel on a Mac or whatever - or - you can run it on a single machine. One note -- it DOES like memory. Two meg is required just to boot it on a Mac. I found myself running out of memory doing very simple problems with 2 Meg and frantically searched for a memory expansion. Now that I'm running 5 Meg things are much smoother. If you are interested in the program, Addison-Wesley is publishing the manual [Mathematica S. Wolfram 0-201-19334-5 1988], which is an excellent tour of the program and its capabilities.