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- From: fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher)
- Subject: Re: Axiom to replace Mathematica and Maple?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.140335.18713@socrates.umd.edu>
- Keywords: Axiom, SPECTRUM
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1992Nov3.133857.21829@socrates.umd.edu> <1d66nnINNs70@function.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:03:35 GMT
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- In article <1d66nnINNs70@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov3.133857.21829@socrates.umd.edu> fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
- >> [Axiom,] requiring 200 megabytes
- >> of disk space,
- >
- >Maple, requiring 7 megabytes of disk space, runs on a Mac with 2 megabytes
- >of RAM.
- >--
- > Gerald A. Edgar Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu
- > Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY
- > The Ohio State University telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office)
- > Columbus, OH 43210 -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)
-
- Ah yes, the price of power. Axiom has been somewhat of a memory hog-
- it usually runs best with 24M of memory or so (actually so does Mma).
- But the 200 M diskspace is due to the extensive library and HyperDocs.
- I would guess that a lot of this could be cut down depending on
- your particular interest. (As a size comparison, look at KHOROS,
- an extensive X based visualization package with a lot of libraries.
- Use for comparison only, actual diskspace may vary.)
-
- I agree that you probably won't see Axiom running on a 2M Mac in
- the near future. But my understanding is that Axiom is somewhat
- similar to Maple in that it has a reasonable kernel, then loads the
- library packages as it needs them (one of the early Maple guys
- at Waterloo went to IBM to work on ScratchPad II, now Axiom. I
- don't know if there is a connection there or not.) We'll have
- to wait and see what develops. Until then we have Maple, MathCAD,
- and even Mathematica (all of which will probably serve well to
- meet a lot of needs even after Axiom comes along.)
-
-
- Charlie
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