[SunRescue] [OT]: NeXTStep on SPARC/PA RISC

[Gil Young]

Hey I rremember mathematica, and it was a pain to float it around.  We 
tried once to float it from a Sparc to a PC and they would not do it.  And 
I was working for an educational institution at the time even!  Very cool 
proggy though.

Gil

At 04:15 PM 4/17/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 04:52:45PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Speaking of mathematica on NeXT, I heard that it used to come standard.
> > Can anyone confirm this, and which versions did it come standard with?  I
> > suspect that setting up nextstep on a 486 would be cheaper than buying a
> > copy of Mathematica, and for my needs, a 486 for math is fine.
>
>It was available as part of the educational bundle on the 030 hardware,
>I think only in early releases.
>
>The licensing was VERY PAINFUL.  It was locked to the hardware board,
>and it was extremely difficult to convince Wolfram that you had upgraded
>to an 040 or the like.
>
>Reagen
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Gil Young
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