Macsyma

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Macsyma is a computer algebra system implemented in the Lisp language. Maxima is an open source version of Macsyma.

history

Originally Macsyma was from 1968 to 1982 in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of MIT as part of the DARPA -funded Project MAC developed. Joel Moses was in charge of the development .

In 1982, MIT gave a version of Macsyma to the US Department of Energy (DOE) , one of the main sponsors of the project. This version was called DOE Macsyma. The open source version Maxima is based on it.

Symbolics acquired a license to further develop Macsyma in 1982. Symbolics developed Macsyma for a number of years, but eventually saw it as secondary to their main business, selling Lisp machines . Due to the lack of interest from Symbolics to further develop Macsyma and to port it to other systems such as PCs, Macsyma lost market share dramatically. In 1987 Macsyma still held a 70% share of the market for symbolic computer algebra systems, but by 1991 the share fell to 1%.

Richard Petti and Russell Noftsker , the founders of Symbolics, founded Macsyma Inc. in 1992 , bought Symbolics Macsyma and continued development for several years. Macsyma Inc. was no longer able to secure a larger market share over other computer algebra systems.

In 1999, Macsyma was acquired by Tenedos LLC , a holding company. Until now Tenedos has neither reissued nor sold Macsyma. Macsyma can still be licensed from Symbolics. Macsyma 2.4 is available for PCs running Windows.

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