From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 18 12:05:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA15873 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 18 May 1995 12:05:40 -0700 Received: from alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (hsu@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.156.234]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA15867 for ; Thu, 18 May 1995 12:05:38 -0700 Received: (from hsu@localhost) by alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.11/UCSEE-0.9a) id MAA03193; Thu, 18 May 1995 12:05:29 -0700 Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 12:05:29 -0700 From: Jeffrey Hsu Message-Id: <199505181905.MAA03193@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> To: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie Subject: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when? Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From ianc@wri.com Thu May 18 07:45:22 1995 > > While it would certainly be possible to port Mathematica to FreeBSD, > we do not currently have any plans to do so. In fact your message is > the first request we have had for this. > > It is not really practical for us to make a port of Mathematica > to a new platform if we will only sell a handful of copies. Of > course if someone came along with a purchase order for 100 copies > the situation would change. > > I hope this helps. > > --Ian > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Ian Collier > Technical Sales Support > Wolfram Research, Inc. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Tel (217) 398-0700 Fax (217) 398-0747 ianc@wri.com > Wolfram Research Home Page http://www.wri.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Hmm, I know that my last message is not the first request, since I and Jordan have asked before and I've seen other requests for a FreeBSD port on usenet. Apparently we're not as loud as the Linux crowd so we're much more forgettable. However, Ian's reply offers an invitation for us to send more requests to him for a FreeBSD port. Let's do this in force. Jeffrey