--- Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@ees2.oulu.fi> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> I'm sure there are other systems still in use somewhere, even if they
> are not publicly available.
That's an interesting point - I wonder how many people got left out in
the cold when Macsyma Inc. folded?
> >Paramacs, Vaxima, ... are now defunct ... since the only one that
> >survived
> >is the open-source, I think we should remark that ...
>
> Well, I believe I found Vaxima sources available somewhere in the
> net--
> maybe not legally, though.
>
> Anyway, it would be nice to mention these other systems, in the
> manual
> if not in the web page.
That's probably a manual thing - I kind of had it in mind to work those
into the history section, which is probably the most relevant place for
them now. I think I also found some other Macsyma sources, but I would
be dubious of their legality until proven otherwise. Actually, though,
that's a worthwhile question - do any of the other versions, if they
are still out there, have any features Maxima doesn't (becides the
Macsyma GUI stuff)? I know there was one at one point which could run
on MacOS, but other than that I have no idea.
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