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Re: On which OS is Mathematica best implemented?

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• Subject: [mg88961] Re: [mg88923] On which OS is Mathematica best implemented?
• From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at att.net>
• Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 02:37:53 -0400 (EDT)
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So far as I can tell, Mathematica is identical on the two machines.

Bobby

On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:51:32 -0500, LeftCoast_Dave <I.am at nul.domain.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
> I have not used Mathematica in a long time, but am about to get back
> into it. In it's first few versions (the only ones I have used) the Mac
> version was by far more polished, had more features, and was much
> stabler than its Windows counterpart (well, for everything I wanted to
> do, which was a lot). Such was the case for quite a few other programs
> at the time, including Microsoft's own cash caws, Excel and Word.
>
> Well, things changed for the Office suite- The Windows versions of Excel
> and Word have been "ahead" of the Mac versions for years (since v.5 of
> Excel).  What about Mathematica? On which OS is it "ahead" by and large
> /these/ days? How does its release/update history compare on the two
> platforms? The computer I will load this onto runs Mac OS 10.5.2, WinXP
> sp3, and of course Unix.
>
> Many, many thanks in advance.
> Dave
>
>



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