I would definitely like to see something on our web pages praising the
work Bill Schelter did to keep this version alive. At the same time I'd
like to see some mention of the fact that we are currently in a
transitional state.
--Jim
On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 19:02, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> There is one phrase up in top of the web-site (that I have seen around
> quite a bit) that is somewhat misleading:
>
> Maxima is a descendant of DOE Macsyma, which had its origins in
> the late 1960s at MIT. It is the oldest such system still in use
> today ...
>
> To be honest, Maxima is the ONLY such system still in use today, if we
> are
> talking about Macsyma descendants. All others ones, Macsyma Inc, Aljabr,
>
> Paramacs, Vaxima, ... are now defunct ... since the only one that
> survived
> is the open-source, I think we should remark that ...
>
> Seen from this light, one can try to gauge the importance of Bill's
> work.
> At times, at the end of the 80's beginning 90's there were some 7 or 8
> Versions of Macsyma around - pretty much all of them dead now, with the
> sole exception of Maxima.
>
> Paulo Ney de Souza
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: maxima-admin at www [mailto:maxima-
> > admin@www.ma.utexas.edu] On Behalf Of C Y
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 4:46 PM
> > To: Maxima list
> > Subject: New website up
> >
> > OK, it's pretty basic yet, but it's more or less ready and the new
> > website is up at http://maxima.sourceforge.net as the default. Take a
> > look and see what y'all think. (Jay, the old temp page is at
> > index.old.html, so if you think I jumped the gun you can just move
> that
> > back to index.html and all will be well. :-)
> >
> > CY
> >
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