Re: Re: mathematica on a palmtop?
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- Subject: [mg39157] Re: [mg39142] Re: mathematica on a palmtop?
- From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:57:11 -0500 (EST)
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I suspect within two or three years pocket PCs will have enough power to support Mathematica in toto, and porting the kernel to Palm won't happen before that, if at all. The display is useless for that, but I think somebody will solve that problem, too. A simple built-in projector would be nice. Bobby On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 04:36:53 -0500 (EST), Orestis Vantzos <atelesforos at hotmail.com> wrote: > I think that simply porting the kernel would not be such a bad idea. > Since the palmtops have fairly complete versions of Java and J/Link > can link to that, I think that there are various interesting > possibilities. > With the kernel running as a service and using Java to create > specialised GUIs, a palmtop with a mathematica kernel could be used as > the ultimate scientific calculator! > It is obvious that you can not program Mathematica with a palmtop, but > you can prepare the Java GUI/Mathematica package at a desktop PC and then > upload it to the palmtop to get specific jobs done. I am confident > that Wolfram could easily create 'mini front-ends' for many things. > Things like the Integrator could easily fit into a palmtop. Input via > the Basic Input Palette could be easily implemented. > Orestis > > Tim May <tcmay at got.net> wrote in message > news:<b184gv$kqn$1 at smc.vnet.net>... >> In article <b15q34$f0q$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Daniel Reeves >> <dreeves at umich.edu> 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. >> >> >> Yes, the CPU power is almost there, but the screen size and resolution >> simply is not. Mathematica running on my Mac 7100av in the mid-90s still >> had >> the full effect of a 1024 x 768 color display on a 17-inch monitor. >> Trying to do useful work on my Visor Prism or even an iPaq would be >> horrible...useful only for the type of situation you fantasize about. >> >> Meaning, not worth the effort. >> >> I currently have Mathematica 4.1.5 on my 5-lb TiBook. Not small enough >> to "whip >> out at a party to impress a chick" (yuk yuk), but perfectly fine for >> any mobile use (such as at the library, or at remote sites, or in hotel >> rooms) I can plausibly imagine. >> >> Wasting time and money on a PDA port would be foolish for Wolfram. >> >> --Tim May > > -- majort at cox-internet.com Bobby R. Treat
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- From: atelesforos@hotmail.com (Orestis Vantzos)
- Re: mathematica on a palmtop?