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dan hayes | 27 Jul 2012 15:31
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maxima vs. Macsyma

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 and perhaps fixed some of the bugs ? Will
it clash with my current purchased version like just prior to 1999 ? as I am currently using it quite often
 or can it just  add to it or what?

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Marco Ciampa | 28 Jul 2012 14:49
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Re: maxima vs. Macsyma

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 and perhaps fixed some of the bugs ? Will
> it clash with my current purchased version like just prior to 1999 ? as I am currently using it quite often
>  or can it just  add to it or what?

Why don't you simply try and install (wx)maxima and see by yourself? It's free! ;-)

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Richard Fateman | 28 Jul 2012 17:00
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Re: maxima vs. Macsyma

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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Robert Dodier | 29 Jul 2012 18:51
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Re: maxima vs. Macsyma

dan hayes <zmth <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> I have the  purchased version 2.2 of Macsyma around justprior to 1999
> and was most unhappy to receive the bad news that they wentout of business.
> NOw my question how similar is this Maxima - can it doall the things that
> Macsyma did and perhaps fixed some of the bugs ? Willit clash with my
> current purchased version like just prior to 1999 ? as I am currently
> using it quite often or can it just  add to it or what?

As I understand the history of both projects, Maxima and Macsyma
diverged in the early 1980's, as Macsyma was developed commerically
and Maxima academically. At this point Macsyma and Maxima probably
have disjoint sets of features and bugs. I wouldn't expect, without
testing, that every Macsyma program works the same in Maxima, and
vice versa.

Hope this helps,

Robert Dodier

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