24 Oct
2011
24 Oct
'11
10:29 p.m.
On 24/10/11 11:06 AM, Mark Tapley wrote:
At 3:22 -0500 10/24/11, Tony wrote:
You can run Mathematica on a NeXT without any optical drive or media (I
have a licence & have done so, on a slab).
However I would like to track down Adobe Illustrator for NEXTSTEP.
--T
There probably is a need for an
'engineer's spreadsheet' with proper
complex number support, but I guess the market is much less than for
'business' applicatiosn which only need real numbers.
Mathematica can do that functionality, but probably not cost-effectively
and not (current versions) on legacy hardware. (Mma v. 1 is included in
NeXTStep 1.0, so if you can get that optical media together with a
working optical drive (good luck there!) you are set). I have not tried MathCad, Maple, macsyma, etc., and at
least the last
one of those is on-topic and should run on the classes of machines
(VAX-11/780, etc.) that might be found around Casa Duell.
I have got (but sadly have not tried yet) a copy of muMath which might
be able to do it on a DEC Rainbow.
muMath's successor Derive (DOS/Windows) became the basis for the TI
Nspire CAS, and early versions of that might also serve in this context.
Has anyone got experience with doing complex arithmetic in any of these?