Re: mathematica on a palmtop?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg39082] Re: mathematica on a palmtop?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 03:35:20 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi, the machine that run Mathematica fine a few year ago run the Mathematica *Kernel* and not the FrontEnd. The MS-DOS version of Mathematica 1.2 run only with a DOS extender. Porting the FrontEnd seems to be almost impossible. You should discover other themes than computer algebra when talking with a girl ;-) Regards Jens Daniel Reeves wrote: > > If I could have mathematica on a palmtop I would be a truly fulfilled > human being. <drifts into fantasy...> > [setting: a cocktail party] > Girl: ...so in the limit you'd find that... > Me: well let's plot that [whips out palmtop with mathematica] > Girl: [swoons] > > It's clearly possible in principle since modern palmtops are more > powerful than desktop machines that ran mathematica just fine several > years ago. > > But has anyone made this work in practice? > > Daniel > > -- > Daniel Reeves -- http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/dreeves/ > > Sowmya: Is this guy a mathematician? > Terence: Worse, an economist. At least mathematicians are honest about > their disdain for the real world.