[HECnet] vaxima

[Clem Cole]

http://maxima.sourceforge.net

also check out:   http://andrejv.github.io/wxmaxima/


On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Jerome Ibanes <jibanes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for Vaxima, if someone has preserved a copy of it, it is
> best described as such (if you don't know Vaxima):
>
> MACSYMA (Project MAC's SYmbolic MAnipulation System) is a large
> computer algebra system for symbolic and numerical computations.
> Originally MACSYMA was developed by the MATH lab group at M.I.T. The
> descendants of MACSYMA (circa 1982) fall into two camps, viz., the
> commercialized Symbolics MACSYMA and its successor from Macsyma, Inc.,
> and the versions released to National Energy Software Center at
> Argonne, Illinois, which are based on the "public" MIT source code for
> the DEC PDP-10 MACLisp system. The latter ones do not have the
> Symbolics enhancements, but they have been modified from time to time
> by several individuals or groups. One of these modifications is known
> as VAXIMA. It is an implementation around 1980 on DEC-Vaxes by R.
> Fateman at the University of California at Berkeley. It uses VAX/UNIX
> Franz Lisp and runs on some Franz-Lisp hosts.
>
> Thanks,
> Jerome
>
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