On 7/28/2012 5:49 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 06:31:30AM -0700, dan hayes wrote:
>> I have the purchased version 2.2 of Macsyma around just
>> prior to 1999 and was most unhappy to receive the bad news that they went
>> out of business. NOw my question how similar is this Maxima - can it do
>> all the things that Macsyma did
Not all. Possibly it will do all the same things for your examples, though.
>> and perhaps fixed some of the bugs ?
Perhaps. It may have some bugs that Macsyma commercial development fixed.
>> Will
>> it clash with my current purchased version like just prior to 1999 ?
It should co-exist happily with the commercial system on the same computer.
>> as I am currently using it quite often
>> or can it just add to it or what?
New packages written for Maxima may very well work in Macsyma also.
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> Why don't you simply try and install (wx)maxima and see by yourself? It's free! ;-)
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