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Re: mumath

On Apr 14, 4:05 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Apr 14, 1:32 pm, aiiad...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >>mumath...
>
> >>What is it?
>
> >>Rich
>
> > wikipedia is my friend:
>
> > muMATH is a Computer algebra system, which was developed in the late
> > 70s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of the
> > Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was implemented in the muSIMP
> > programming language which was built on top of a LISP dialect called
> > muLISP. Platforms supported were CP/M and TRS-DOS (since muMATH-79),
> > Apple II (since muMATH-80) and MS-DOS (in muMATH-83, the last version).
>
> It's actually a quite capable algebra system, considering the
> limitations of 64KB machines.
>
> -michael
>
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>
> "The wastebasket is our most important design
> tool--and it's seriously underused."

Yep, and this was 27_ish year ago, before the HP28 or other more
common CAS systems. It was unique.