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- From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Mathematica on SPARC?
- Message-ID: <3526@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 15:11:54 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.194843.4427@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep4.194843.4427@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> eboltz@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Eric Scott Boltz) writes:
-
- >I am sure that Mathematica is available for SPARCs, but is
- >it the best manipulator for this platform? On the NeXT Mathematica
- >uses a 'notebook' interface which is quite nice, but I do not
- >believe this is available on Sun's machines.
- >
- >Is there a better manipulator (such as Maple, MathCAD etc) for
- >Open Windows 3 or Solaris?
-
- Eric,
-
- MathCAD has a slightly better than command line interface, but
- significantly fewer functions and less capability. Both Maple and
- Mathematica only have command-line interfaces on generic UNIX machines
- (SPARC, PA-RISC, whatever).
-
- However, you can use the Mathematica "Notebook" front end of a NeXT
- or Macintosh and the more powerful backend Mathematica "compute engine"
- running on a SPARC/PA-RISC/etc system over a network as if it were a
- single system. I plan to do this myself. Wolfram Research fully
- supports (and designed in) support for this mode of operation.
-
- Ran
- atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil
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