[HECnet] vaxima

[Jerome Ibanes]

Nah, I'm interested in the original implementation, not maxima (which,
although is amazing).


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On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 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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