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- From: hshlswe1@w222zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Hilmar Schlegel)
- Subject: Re: commercial version of IBM's "new scratchpad"
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:31:24 GMT
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- In article <CREON.92Sep8134729@wk39.nas.nasa.gov>, creon@nas.nasa.gov
- (M. Creon Levit) writes:
- >
- > The most exciting thing I saw at SIGGRAPH this year was a verson of new
- > scratchpad running on an IBM r6000 workstation (they had changed the name,
- > though, and I cant remeber its new name). Ever since I started reading
- > about it, I have considered new scratchpad to be the most significant
- > symbolic computing package since macsyma, and now they are finally letting
- > it out. I even saw a preprint of a new book documenting the program.
- >
- > This program is incredible. It seems far beyond macsyma-, mathematica-, or
- > maple-like programs. I believe this is because it is implemented (and
- > extended) in an object oriented fashion where the structure of the class
- > heirarchy is based on the structure of the class heirarchy used in
- > mathematics itself. E.g, things like semi-groups, differential forms,
- > hermitian operators, etc, etc, etc, are distinct datatypes in this system
- > with the correct relationships between them.
- >
- > The r6000 implementation had all of the 3D color graphics that we have come
- > to expect from such packages. Ports to sun and sgi machines were in the
- > works.
- >
- > I dropped the ball, though, and don't know who to contact about getting it.
- > If someone could post official information to this newsgroup, I think it
- > would go over very well.
- >
- >
- > -- end of message --
- >
- > Creon Levit
- >
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- > creon@nas.nasa.gov (Internet)
- > --
- >
- > -- end of message --
- >
- > Creon Levit
- >
- > Mail Stop T045-1
- > NASA Ames Research Center
- > Moffett Field, California 94035-1000
- > USA
- >
- > (415)-604-4403 (phone)
- > (415)-604-3957 (FAX)
- > creon@nas.nasa.gov (Internet)
- This new version is now available from NAG under the name AXIOM.
- With respect to far beyond all others .... one should mention that
- it requires rather large resources with respect to RAM and disk space.
- But this system is really a new generation and I wish that you will have
- some fun
- with it.
- Hilmar Schlegel (hshlswe1@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de)
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