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- From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
- Subject: Re: DOS emulation
- Message-ID: <C0DEy4.5Ey@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1993Jan4.180603.60541@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 07:46:51 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.180603.60541@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> dlj0@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
- >In article <C0BHKA.MKM@world.std.com>, jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
- >>>Rather than running a copy of MSDOS in an virual 8086, wouldn't it be
- >>>nice to have a free dos-like operating system that was capable of
- >>>running DOS programs?
- >>
- >>Which programs from the DOS world are needed so that people will give-up
- >>MS-DOS? I can think of these:
- >>
- >I'd like to add to the list: a full-featured computer-algebra package, like
- >Maple or Mathematica. I don't think there is any chance that either of those
- >will be ported to linux in the forseeable future, certainly not Mathematica.
- >I now use gnuplot and Pari-GP as substitutes, but Maple certainly does much
- >more than the sum of these two.
-
- I don't know what Pari-GP is, but what about macsyma? Isn't there a
- freeware version of macsyma somewhere? (There should be since it was a DOAE
- funded program)
-
- As far as maple: how good is its graphics these days? I wish the waterloo
- people would sell it in source form.. I remember the mess I had to go
- through to install an Ultrix binary version of it a few years ago.
- --
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