>>>>> "CY" == C Y <smustudent1@yahoo.com> writes:
CY> A Brief History of Macsyma
CY> off the Arpanet in 1983. (Interestingly, the closing of the MIT Lisp
CY> and Macsyma efforts was a key reason Richard Stallman decided to form
CY> the Free Software Foundation.) Between the high prices, closed source
CY> code, and neglecting various platforms in favor of Lisp Machines (a
CY> product of Symbolics which worked natively in Lisp) pressure came to
CY> bear on MIT to release another version to accommodate these needs,
CY> which they did with some reluctance. The new version was distributed
Do you have references for the things you state here?
CY> efforts failed. In the summer of 1999 Macsyma Inc. was sold to a
CY> holding company, which is seeking large contracts for the product and
CY> has removed it completely from the retail market. The other DOE
Likewise.
Otherwise, a nice brief history of Macsyma/maxima.
Ray