Re: Another point about Mathematica 8.0
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- Subject: [mg116414] Re: Another point about Mathematica 8.0
- From: "Ingolf Dahl" <ingolf.dahl at telia.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:26:46 -0500 (EST)
I get a bit curious. How fast is your machine? How good is it compared to a PC or a Mac? Could you run the Mathematica Benchmark test on your machine? Needs["Benchmarking`"] Benchmark[] Alternatively, could you run the benchmark test on https://homepages.fhv.at/ku/karl/mma.html ? Best regards Ingolf Dahl > -----Original Message----- > From: P_ter [mailto:petervansummeren at gmail.com] > Sent: den 9 februari 2011 08:12 > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg116277] Another point about Mathematica 8.0 > > Three years ago I bought an expensive SUN. Especially for the > Professional Mathematica. I now have running a licensed Professional > Mathematica 7.0 > > Two months ago my supplier sent me a message in which Wolfram > announced that for the operating system of this SUN, no update to > Mathematica 8.0 would be possible. Only support for my current > Mathematica 7.0 > That was all. > I wrote to them and all I got was a neat answer which for me equates > to "bla bla". > > >From my point of view this is not decent. I invested in trust. And > then, oeps, there is this decision not to continue. > > Maybe the discussion about the Mathematica 8.0 home editions is not > logical.