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Date: Sun 19-Aug-1991 12:26:38 From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Subject: Re: MATHEMATICA 2.0 BEGINS SHIPPING FOR NeXT PLATFORM In article <1991Aug16.215910.26164@abekas.uucp> mikep@abekas.uucp (Mike Park) > Recently sent to next-lab mailing list: > > -------------------> > Date: Fri, 16 Aug 91 12:04:34 PDT > From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM > To: next-lab@cs.ubc.ca > > MATHEMATICA 2.0 BEGINS SHIPPING FOR NeXT PLATFORM > > REDWOOD CITY, Calif., August 15, 1991 -- NeXT Computer, Inc. > today announced that Mathematica 2.0, a significantly enhanced > version of the popular system for doing mathematics by computer, has > begun shipping for the NeXT platform. NeXT bundles a copy of > Mathematica with all of its computers sold to education customers in > North America. > > .... > <stuff about it's virtues deleted> > .... > > All NeXT customers who obtained Mathematica 1.0 or 1.2 > bundled with Release 1.0 NeXT's system software, will be sent > Mathematica 2.0 if they have sent to NeXT the upgrade card received > with Release 2.0 of NeXT's system software. Education users running > Release 2.0 on any of NeXT's 68040-based workstations, including the > NeXTstation, NeXTstation Color or the NeXTcube, can obtain > Mathematica 2.0 from their campus resellers. My understanding is that it will be on floppy. Any word on getting it on OD? What about legally over the network to authorized upgrade customers? > How long will it take for customers to get Mathematica? > NeXT order management estimates that all backlog for higher education > customers (many thousand units) will be cleared up in 8 weeks from > today. Orders will be filled in the order that they were received by > NeXT. Order management also predicts that the backlog for shipment to > upgrade customers will be cleared in four weeks from today. > > <-------------------- > > At last! > Mike > -- > Mike Park NET: mikep%abekas@pyramid.com > Abekas Video Systems Inc. UUCP: ...!{uunet,sun}!pyramid!abekas!mikep
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