Re: Windows NT or Linux
- Subject: [mg2688] Re: Windows NT or Linux
- From: ianc (Ian Collier)
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 01:57:39 -0500
- Approved: usenet@wri.com
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- Newsgroups: wri.mathgroup
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
In article <4a0rt9$ce1 at dragonfly.wri.com>, tecvis at iprolink.ch (Dr Pierre E. Ravussin,) wrote: > Hello > > I had made the same inquiry to some Mathematica distributors. Apparently > there is no technical advantage to use Windows NT or Linux because Math. is > a 16 bit soft. Finally I bought the Windows 3.1 version ! > I would appreciate your feeed back. > > Ravussin (tecvis at mail.iprolink.ch) > > > >Hi all ... > > > >Is somebody operation with Mathematica on Linux Systems ...??? > > > >I am considering to get Mathematica for Linux or for Windows NT and would > >like to get some feedback which is more efficient .. > > > >Thanks in advance .... > > > >Buelent (zbya at mae.eng.ucf.edu) Just to clarify, in the current version of Mathematica for Windows, which runs under Windows NT, the kernel is a 32 bit Win32 application, while the front end is a 16 bit application. The Linux version of Mathematica is a full 32 bit application. I hope this helps. --Ian ----------------------------------------------------------- Ian Collier Technical Sales Support Wolfram Research, Inc. ----------------------------------------------------------- tel:(217)-398-0700 fax:(217)-398-0747 ianc at wri.com Wolfram Research Home Page: http://www.wri.com/ -----------------------------------------------------------