Re: DOWN

[glyn@gsb013.cs.ualberta.ca (Reade Glyn Devin)]

In article <1993Sep16.112633.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>, khorster@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes...

> 	I was wondering where I could some information on Symbolix GS.  Is it
>some kind of Math program?  Is it still available?  Opinions?  Any information
> would be appreciated....

As the name implies, it's a mathematical software package for the IIgs.  In
particular, it's mostly useful for _symbolic_ math.  It also has a really
nice graphing package.

It doesn't currently have any incompatibilities that I know of.  In
particular, it supports use of the FPE math coprocessor.  (Yeah!)  More
importantly, they have _very impressive_ customer support.  Henrik
did three revisions for me in (about) four weeks to not only get
the FPE working, but improve the user's flexibility in the use of
the FPE.

It is designed to be very expandable for third-party programmers; there
is a module interface that allows you to access a lot of the internal
data structures.

The only thing that I _personally_ would prefer is the ability to work
with large amounts of empirical data.  While I suspect that this could
be added on as a module, I haven't had the time to do it myself.  Henrik
tells me that Bright Software has this in mind for a separate program.

It is still produced.  _Very_ much worth the price if you do symbolic
manipulations and _especially_ graphing, you will find that it's the 
only package of it's kind right now.  (GSNumerics is a laugh and
shouldn't be mentioned in the same sentence; it [GSNumerics] was
a waste of money.)

BTW, it's just Symbolix or Eureka! Symbolix.  (The GSymbolix name
was dropped -- let's not reopen this thread)  It's still available
from Bright Software.  See Henrik Gudat (gudat@avalon.physik.unizh.ch)
or Larry Virden.  I don't have Larry's address with me, but I
think it's lvirden@lablues.uucp.

Disclaimer:  I am in no way affiliated with Bright Software; I am just
a very satisfied customer.

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        G. Devin Reade          glyn@cs.ualberta.ca        <-- preferred
                                glynr@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca