Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 16:09:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie Subject: Re: (fwd) Re: Mma for Linux, when? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950518160810.4960C-100000@espresso.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199505181905.MAA03193@alumni.EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Thu, 18 May 1995, Jeffrey Hsu wrote: > > 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 > I'm gonna need Mathematica for next Spring's Diff EQ class, but I don't know what range of cost (rough idea?) we're talking about. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 7608 Topton St. | New Carrollton, MD 20784 | I run Journey2 (Freebsd 2.0) and n3lxx (301) 459-2316 | (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) and am I happy! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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