Re: Mathematica and OPENSTEP
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- Subject: [mg15748] Re: Mathematica and OPENSTEP
- From: rdieter at math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:42:43 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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In article <78unj3$9k3 at smc.vnet.net> rmj at leland.Stanford.EDU (Roger M. Jones) writes: > At present I am running Mathematica on NeXT "black hardware". However, > I want to run Mathematica with OPENSTEP 4.2 on a recently purchased PC. > Is there a Mathematica version specifically for this operating system? > And, have users found Mathematica to be stable when run in this way. Mathematica 3.0 is a NEXTSTEP 3.x application, but since OPENSTEP 4.2 (ala NEXTSTEP 4.2) is fully backward compatible, it "just works". An entirely unforigiveable bug exists (that I reported almost 2 YEARS ago now) that makes Math'ca 3.0 almost unusable (for us, at least). Postscript print jobs contain erroneous information/data that causes print outs to fail. See http://www.wolfram.com/support/Systems/NeXT/FE/nextdict.html for more details about the bug. The page claims it SOMETIMES occurs, but in my testing, it occurs EVERY time (unless you are using a NeXTprinter). -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln