Vadim V. Zhytnikov wrote:
> Vadim writes:
>
>> ahmet alper parker wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>> Is there a port of maxima for pocket pc's?
>>
>>
>> there is rather old port at
>> http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/maxima-ce.html
>>
>> But I think it's not actually good for usage, due to serious WinCE
>> limitations.
>>
>>> There is windows mobile for
>>> pocket pc's. Can maxima be compiled for windows mobile?
>>
>>
>>
>
> This old port works well on Windows Mobile 2003 SE.
> It is not useless due to Windows CE/Mobile resources
> limitations.
you probably not aware that wince 4.20 and less just throws away
applications randomly, whenever some 32 slots are occupied, and some are
always occupied after system boot.
My newer device starts throwing away sooner than my older device,
because of some GSM stack, etc.
The maxima could be usable, but only as a toy, IMO.
> You can easily compute expand((x+y+z)^100)
> for maybe one minute or so - it's pretty long expression.
> The real trouble is that Maxima runs in it's own small
> console window (Windows CE/Mobile don't have built-in console)
> which doesn't have vertical scroll. So you are able to see just
> last 15-20 lines of output. It render this port of Maxima
> practically useless.
>
the output is written to some file, so you can grab the content.
This is how PerlIDE for wince works, and I think you can adopt perlIDE
for running maxima.
So this is actually not a problem.
I used PerlIDE, and think it could help you.
See for example my screenshot at http://vkonovalov.ru/t-unihan.jpg
Best regards,
Vadim.