Re: mumath

["John" <zzzjoki@yahoo.com>]

On Apr 15, 2:12 pm, pau...@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
> In article <1176609540.401496.320...@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
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> John <zzzj...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 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:
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> >>>>mumath...
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> >>>>What is it?
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> >>>>Rich
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> >>> wikipedia is my friend:
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> >>> 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).
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> >> It's actually a quite capable algebra system, considering the
> >> limitations of 64KB machines.
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> >> -michael
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> >> NadaNet networking for Apple II computers!
> >> Home page:  http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/
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> >> "The wastebasket is our most important design
> >> tool--and it's seriously underused."
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> > Yep, and this was 27_ish year ago, before the HP28 or other more
> > common CAS systems. It was unique.
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> It was rare, but not unique.  REDUCE and MACSYMA were two CAS'es which
> predated muMATH, however they ran only on mainframes.
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> Perhaps muMATH was unique in its ability to run in only some 48K
> of memory?  If so, it still may be unique - a modern CAS, yes
> almost any modern software, will definitely require more memory than
> that to run!

Unique in the low resources required, availability to the masses ( CP/
M, Apple 2 or TRS-80 machines), and low price.

I would call the Model T unique, also. It wasn't the first or only car
at the time.