commercial macsyma (was Re: Cauchy principal value integral)

On 4-9-09 Richard Fateman wrote:
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>Roma wrote:
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>> Hello
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>> Where I can download commercial Macsyma?
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>  It is not available at this time. My copy is many years old.
>   Perhaps it will become available again.
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I have previously corresponded with the commercial
macsyma distributor (google  symbolics.com) about
pricing, support, etc. I decided that without support
the product was not worth the price, and would
be a distraction from trying to get used to
the freely available ( and cheerfully supported ) Maxima.

However, for what it's worth, here is some information
from the symbolics.com webpage:
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http://symbolics.com/
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Symbolics is currently a privately held company which acquired the assets 
and intellectual property of the old public company called Symbolics, Inc. 
The old Symbolics was the premier producer of special-purpose computer 
systems for running and developing state-of-the-art object-oriented programs 
in Lisp. It designed and built workstations as well as writing a fully 
object-oriented operating system and development environment called "Genera" 
to run on those workstations. Symbolics also created a number of software 
tools to work with Genera.  The new Symbolics continues to sell and maintain 
these products, along with Open Genera which runs on Alpha processor based 
workstations running Tru64 Unix.  If you would like to know why you should 
be interested in developing your application in Genera, click here to see 25 
reasons. Symbolics also distributes the Macsyma and PDEase software products 
for Windows PCs.
If you previously purchased Macsyma and would like to upgrade to version 
2.4, click here to check out our
MACSYMA UPGRADE SPECIAL OFFER.
If you have any questions about Symbolics, its products or services, please 
contact:
-- David Schmidt
-- Dir. of Sales & Maintenance Operations
-- P.O. Box 10862, Burke, VA 22009
-- 703-455-0430 (voice)
-- 703-440-0388 (fax)
-- sales at symbolics.com
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http://www.symbolics.com/Macsyma-1.htm
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Macsyma is a general purpose symbolic-numerical-graphical mathematics 
software product.  You can use it to solve simple problems specified by 
one-line commands (such as finding the indefinite integral of a function), 
or to perform very complicated computations by means of a large Macsyma 
program.  Macsyma offers:
    * symbolic and numeric manipulation and solution capabilities in 
algebra, calculus and numerical analysis
    * 2D and 3D report-quality graphics
    * interactive scientific notebooks
    * a user programming environment.
The price for the Macsyma 2.4 CD with license keys for the Windows version 
of Macsyma, Numkit and PDEase is $500.  If you would like to purchase a 
copy, please send an e-mail to macsyma at symbolics.com rquesting a quote and 
payment instructions.
If you previously purchased Macsyma and would like to upgrade to version 2.4 
for Windows PCs, click here to check out our
MACSYMA UPGRADE SPECIAL OFFER.
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http://www.symbolics.com/MacsymaSpecial.htm
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MACSYMA UPGRADE SPECIAL OFFER
If you purchased an earlier version of Macsyma, you may upgrade to the 
Windows version 2.4 for $250 (half the price for new customers).  For the 
upgrade price you get a Macsyma 2.4 CD and Windows license keys for Macsyma, 
NumKit and PDEase.  There is no hard copy documentation, but there is 
extensive documentation on the CD.
To take advantage of this offer, you must provide proof of purchase for an 
earlier version (either a receipt for payment or the media for your older 
version).
If you are interested, send your proof of purchase, shipping address and 
payment to:
                   Symbolics
                   Attn:  Macsyma Upgrade Offer
                   P.O. Box 10862
                   Burke, VA  22009
Make checks and money orders payable to Symbolics.
If you would like to pay by credit card, send e-mail to 
macsyma at symbolics.com for instructions on how to make a credit card payment 
through the Payment Pal system.  There will be an $8 transaction fee added 
for credit card purchases.
If you have any questions about this offer, you may call David Schmidt at 
703-455-0430.

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Ted Woollett