[HECnet] vaxima

[Clem Cole]

Hmm "original" is the eyes of time I suspect.   I have a circa 1983 version
from my BSD days that's on 9-track if I can read it.  It requires BSD Franz
LISP of that vintage to run.  It was actually one of the first VM programs
that ran in the Masscomp box - we used it to debug the VM code.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Jerome Ibanes <jibanes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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