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That was kinda what I would've guessed. Even if lisp was just fine doing symbolics, it would've been a bigger resource hog than something custom done well. I wa
by 7thaccount 5y ago
That was kinda what I would've guessed. Even if lisp was just fine doing symbolics, it would've been a bigger resource hog than something custom done well. I wasn't aware of the lisp CAS on smaller systems. I figured when Mathematica first came out, lisp was mainly running on things like symbolics lisp machines. Is that incorrect?
- lispm 5y agoWhen Mathematica came out (1988) there were already Lisps for PCs and Macs. Lisp at that time made the switch to Common Lisp. Symbolics Lisp Machines were used for higher-end AI, CAD, etc. domains. There was a bunch of very different options across many platforms (PCs, Macs, UNIX Workstations, ...). Macsyma itself ran on various platforms, incl. Lisp Machines, UNIX, VAX/VMS, and then also on Windows. Derive even ran on some TI calculators. It was written in muLISP.
- 7thaccount 5y agoYou need to write a book on this history lol.