Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 17:33:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Bootsrapa Limanond <b0l6604@unix.tamu.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>, Suttipan Limanond <limanond@enws626.eas.asu.edu>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matlab for linux and freebsd Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980430172220.27890A-100000@scully.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <23329.893972247@time.cdrom.com>
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This sounds great. If you need any help on that, please let me know ... On the other note, I just received matlab's pricing this morning. The MATLAB and SIMULINK's pricing seems like something I can swallow (~$500 each for educational license). But, boy ..., a toolbox is priced at $199 each ... (At first, I didn't believe my eyes and had to write back to them to confirm). How is it possible that a toolbox which is nothing but a collection of M-files cost more than a C compiler? Did someone mention Scilab and another package? Is there a URL that I can get some info on these software? Thank you very much, Suttipan Limanond. On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > were not acceptable to many lab members soooo... So, I sent a lengthy > > letter to Dr. Cleve Moler himself (Chief Scientist at the Mathworks), in > > Hmmm. I wonder if Dr. Moler still remembers me - we worked together > on a project back in the mid 80's. I suppose it wouldn't hurt to > call. :) > > > justify the unknown market potential of the product. By the way, did you > > know that the Matlab language parser was implemented brute-force by hand > > and is NOT written using lex and yacc? > > That's pretty funny considering that another other guy working on that > project (and my boss) was Steve Johnson. :-) You'd think something > might have rubbed off. > > > Of course, I reported this to the folks at the Mathworks right away with > > detailed instructions on how I got it to work and even a diff file to > > patch their sh scripts so that future releases would be "FreeBSD Linux > > emulator ready". Their response was, 1) "that's neat" and 2) "we don't > > support that". Wonderful. What really got me steamed though, was a > > Grrrrr, those twinks. You'd think they'd be more cooperative in light > of all the work you did. > > Hmmm. Let me make a few calls and twist a few tails. :) > > - Jordan > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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