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Re: Another point about Mathematica 8.0

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• 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.