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From: hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
Subject: Re: Mathematica
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In article <1991Mar31.220750.6790@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Mar31.132726.8189@sarah.albany.edu> hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
>>
>>Maple has been ported to the Amiga. The current version is 4.2. The newest
>>version will be Maple V. It is currently in beta testing for the Amiga and
>>will be ported to Amiga UNIX. It is an excellent pgm. We use it as our
>>primary software in our Amiga Classroom to teach a full range of mathematics
>>courses.
>>                                        Herb
>
>	I got a newsletter from Waterloo-Maple software saying
>the version V IS shipping now.
>
>>
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>>Herb Brown  Math Dept  The Univ at Albany  Albany, NY 12222  (518) 442-4640
>>hibrown@leah.albany.edu or hibrown@cssun.albany.edu or hibrown@bst.albany.edu
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>	-- Ethan
>
>Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
>A: None. It's a hardware problem.


The Amiga version is not shipping. It only runs on certain 'later'
versions of the operating system. It will not run using WB 1.3, for
example. This must be corrected. WB 2 has not been released and Maple
is currently installed on many Amigas running WB 1.3. 

                                Herb


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