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- From: joswig@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Rainer Joswig)
- Subject: Re: Axiom to replace Mathematica and Maple?
- Message-ID: <joswig-061192110345@kimac6.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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- References: <1992Nov3.133857.21829@socrates.umd.edu> <1d66nnINNs70@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov5.140335.18713@socrates.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 10:04:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.140335.18713@socrates.umd.edu>,
- fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) wrote:
- >
- > 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
-
- But on a Macintosh Quadra 950 with 32 MB RAM? Why not? Memory shouldn't
- be the problem.
-
- > 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.)
-
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-
- Rainer Joswig
- Email: joswig@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
-