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- From: jake@skatter.usask.ca
- Subject: Re: Axiom (was ScratchPad II)--one more word.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.223240.25629@access.usask.ca>
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:32:40 GMT
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- From article <Bx8p1o.3nK@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, by Richard J. Gaylord <gaylord@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>:
- > btw - the ibm risc 6000 machine that axiom runs on costs $26,500.
- > [ i was told that there is no intention to port it to the mac (boo,
- > hiss) but that it will go to other unnamed machines eventually.
- >
- > (btw - the new issue of byte mag has a comparision of workstations [ibm
- > risc 6000, next, sun, sgi iris, apple quadra, etc] which might be of
- > interest to symb. math program users.)
-
- I might add that the next is rather unfairly compared in this review.
-
- jake
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- Jason C. Breckenridge jake@skatter.usask.ca
-
- One of the really amazing things is the number of times an almost-empty
- toothpaste tube can be forced to give up "just enough".
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