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- From: huang@deakin.OZ.AU (Weiguang Huang)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: Axiom to replace Mathematica and Maple?
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 23:25:45 +1100
- Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia
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- References: <1d66nnINNs70@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov5.140335.18713@socrates.umd.edu> <joswig-061192110345@kimac6.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
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- In article <joswig-061192110345@kimac6.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> joswig@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Rainer Joswig) writes:
- >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
- >>
- >> it usually runs best with 24M of memory or so (actually so does Mma).
- >> 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.
- >
- >Rainer Joswig
- >Email: joswig@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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- It is ont only the memory problem but also the CPU problem. Neither Axiom
- nor Maple can run on 16-bit CPU (e.g. 8086)ok. SymbMath has neither memory
- problem nor the CPU problem as it runs on the 8086 machine with 0.5 MK RAM.
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