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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The enduring appeal of Linux
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:52:23 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:13:21 -0400, -hh wrote:

> (Mathmatica wasn't free & wasn't available quickly) ...

Macsyma was there before Mathematica, but it only ran on “real” OSes (i.e. 
Unix) and was written in a “real” programming language (Lisp), so it would 
never work on Windows.

Mathematica’s main appeal was pretty 3D graphics. They looked pretty 
advanced back in the late 1980s. But you look at the package now, and they 
haven’t improved any.