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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.082937.25179@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 08:29:37 GMT
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- In article <Bz675x.K9u@news.iastate.edu> hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma) writes:
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- [ ]
- >>
- >> For the record, the Enhanced Version of Mathematica for the Macintosh costs
- >> $795.00. The Student and Standard Versions (no math coprocessor required)
- >> costs about $200.
- >
- > True, but I was going for what the "average" user has to pay for. Not
- >exceptions like students, which tend to get discounts on a lot of goodies. :)
-
- The "average" user is hardly going to buy Mathematica, Maple, Reduce,...These
- programs are oriented towards people who need symbolic algebra and are able
- to get someone else to pay for it.
-
- That being said, if one wants to explore this area, which has really only
- recently been available on micros, then there is Henrik's (Bright Software)
- GSymbolix on the GS (priced quite reasonably as I recall- I'd appreciate
- someone posting the prices), Derive for the PC (which is $250 for the full
- version and $50 for a restricted version- this includes a good manual).
-
- There is a real problem with most, but not all computer platforms. They are
- very expensive to maintain. Software costs are high, repair/maintenance
- costs are high, peripherals cost a lot, etc...
-
- I do feel that most people do not pay for software, and if they had to they
- wouldn't get a computer.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-