home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.cc.lehigh.edu!ns1.cc.lehigh.edu!fc03
- From: fc03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Frederick W. Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic
- Subject: Re: Maple V Release 2 (was Re: Derive)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150452.71921@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:04:52 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 28
-
- In article <1h7hvjINNm2e@tamsun.tamu.edu>, bryan@kolsky.tamu.edu
- (Bryan Milligan) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec21.143617.28533@math.toronto.edu>
- >madore@math.toronto.edu (Blair F. Madore) writes:
- >> MathCAD is a great product that was primarily numerical at first.
- >> Now it has some good symbolics. If you're primarily interested in
- >> symbolics
- >> of course it's not the package for you. But many average users
- >> with minimal symbolic requirements will find MathCAD the tool of choice.
- >
- > I found it to be too slow on user input. (Type, type,type,
- >wait for the characters to appear on the screen. Repeat.) I also found
- >their upgrade policies a little expensive. If you have minimal
- >symbolic requirments, use Derive.
-
- If you have minimal symbolic requirements and a 386 or 486 PC, use the
- Student Edition of Maple -- at $99, only half the price of Derive! If
- you later need to upgrade to a full-blown symbolic computation
- package, you won't have to relearn everything. :-)
-
- --
-
- o ------------------------------------------------------------------------- o
- | Frederick W. Chapman, User Services, Computing Center, Lehigh University |
- | Campus Phone: 8-3218 Preferred E-mail Address: fc03@Lehigh.Edu |
- o ------------------------------------------------------------------------- o
- | The day after the day after tomorrow is the last day before the rest of |
- | our country's future a week from the day before the day before yesterday! |
-