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Is this related to macsyma?

by geogra4 6y ago

vortico 6y ago
Yes, "Under the name of Maxima, it [Macsyma] was released under the GPL in 1999, and remains under active maintenance." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma
nsajko 6y ago
Try to CTRL-F for Macsyma on the linked Maxima homepage.
e40 6y ago
Maxima was the port of Macsyma to Franz Lisp at UC Berkeley done by Prof. Fateman and his students. Franz Lisp was written to be Mac Lisp compatible for the sole purpose of running Macsyma. Prof Fateman worked on Macsyma at MIT.
- minxomat 6y ago
  And today Franz Lisp is instrumental in running older maclisp programs because the Franz lisp binaries still run unmodified on current BSD releases (with kernel compatibility turned on).
  - e40 6y ago
    That's amazing. VAX or 68k binaries?
    - minxomat 6y ago
      Less exciting than that, the first BSD port. Details are here: https://github.com/turbo/netlisp https://github.com/turbo/netlisp