Re: Palm OS Mathematica
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg27248] Re: Palm OS Mathematica
- From: phys137 at mailcity.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:35:53 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I didn't have much contact with Mathematica for years but, from the software engineering point of view this does not seam feasible. Mathematica consists of two modules, kernel and front-end. Kernel could be probably trimmed down and front-end too - but... I saw Mathematica2.2 and it required at least 8mb memory to run trivial stuff - not to mention disk space at about the same size. Plus, wri seems to dislike the idea of subsets (unlike other systems) of Mathematica - even their student version is the same as normal binary-wise. That's sound engineering, too - cause if you have two versions you have four times more problems. "Alan" <kd7cyb at mac.com> wrote in message news:9687nj$3um at smc.vnet.net... > Is a small version of Mathematica going to be made for the Palm OS > platform in the future? > > Thanks, > Alan >