Re: Another point about Mathematica 8.0
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- Subject: [mg116319] Re: Another point about Mathematica 8.0
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:13:12 -0500 (EST)
Similarly, Mathematica 8 is not supported on Mac OS X for PowerPC Macs, although Mathematica 7 is. Nor has Mathematica been supported for some time on NeXT computers. Alas, computers and software becomes obsolete. On 2/10/2011 5:20 AM, Sjoerd C. de Vries wrote: > I don't see why you bought an apparently expensive machine just to run > Mathematica. It ran just fine on the simple netbook PC of =80300 that I > tried A couple of years ago. It also ran fine on the mainstream laptop > that I bought five years ago, and it runs great on my new one. So, no > need for any exotic machinery. SUN as a platform is dwindling for > quite some time, so it was quite some risk jumping on a system like > that. I feel Wolfram is doing their job supporting 7 for this > platform, but I wouldn't say that they don't have the right to jump > off a sinking ship wrt new systems. > > Cheers -- Sjoerd > > > On Feb 9, 8:11 am, P_ter<petervansumme... at gmail.com> wrote: >> 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. > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305