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A.  This application was written by Bob Burger.  It was developed in support of the Integrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  This curriculum project is supported by the National Science Foundation, the General Electric Foundation, and Lilly Endowment, Inc.  If you are interested in this or any other application written for the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology First Year Integrated Curriculum, please contact us at ifycsem@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu.  The following people are currently serving as professors for the curriculum and would welcome your comments and questions:

Dr. Claude Anderson, III, Computer Science
Campus Box 98
ext. 8331

Dr.  Jerry Fine, Mechanical Engineering
Campus Box 140
ext. 8353

Dr. Jeffrey Froyd, Electrical Engineering
Campus Box 111
ext. 8340

Dr. Mike Moloney, Physics
Campus Box 161
ext. 8302

Dr. Howard McLean, Chemistry
Campus Box 70
ext. 8378

Dr. Edward Mottel, Chemistry
Campus Box 71
ext. 8315

Dr. Brian Winkel, Mathematics
Campus Box 132
ext. 8412

c/o Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
6060 Wabash Avenue
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA  47803

phone 812-877-1511
or
812-877- ext.


B.  This application best fits in the mathematics category.

C.  Calc is a scientific RPN calculator which includes many common functions used in scientific and engineering classes.  It manipulates imaginary numbers and contains several physical constants available by the click of a button.   

D.  This application is used as part of the Integrated First Year Curriculum in many classes.

E.  This application was developed under NeXTSTEP 2.1.

F.  This application requires no special installation.

These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.