Re: Native MMA FrontEnd for OS/2 eventually ?!
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- Subject: [mg4828] Re: Native MMA FrontEnd for OS/2 eventually ?!
- From: rubin at msu.edu (Paul A. Rubin)
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:12:45 -0400
- Organization: Michigan State University
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In article <508nsf$dp2 at dragonfly.wolfram.com>, sad at utkux.utcc.utk.edu (Deutscher) wrote: -> ->Hi, -> I was wondering whether I am the only one who is upset by Wolfram ->Research's aparent inability (or ignorance) to produce a native OS/2 ->FrontEnd for Mathematica. Not hardly! -> ->As is, MMA/2 is quite stable and nice but the Frontend looks like ->written by a summer student. -> [snip] -> ->* The notebook interface is still only available through the Windoze -> version, i.e. one has to have either the OS/2 Win-OS2 subsystem -> installed (which comes with some versions of OS/2) or real MS Windows, -> and then one has to start the kernel as OS/2 process, Windows, the -> Windows Frontend, and have the two communicate through tcp/ip with each -> other. While it is nice that this is possible it is absolutely -> rediculous to require Windows and tcp/ip support to be installed to use -> all the features of MMA/2 -- on a notebook with limited HD and memory, -> e.g., this can be next to impratical. Could be worse. On my system (Pentium 90, red spine version), there was about a 7 second delay between starting an evaluation and getting a result, in addition to the actual kernel execution time for the cell. I assume that some quirk in the TCP/IP interface was to blame, or possibly a setting in WIN-OS2, but it beats me what. I had to replace my hard disk and reload Warp, and I haven't bothered to reinstall Mma/2 - if I absolutely need to run it, I'll reboot in DOS/Windows. Do any of the other computer algebra packages have native OS/2 versions? -- Paul ************************************************************************** * Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 * * Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 * * Eli Broad Graduate School of Management Net: RUBIN at MSU.EDU * * Michigan State University * * East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) * ************************************************************************** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====