Re: The enduring appeal of Windows: 34 years of total and complete desktop dominance

On 10/30/2024 9:52 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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.

Macsyma: originally developed from 1968 to 1982 (long before Windows was even available)
Later:
"The price for the Macsyma 2.4 CD with license keys for the Windows version of Macsyma, Numkit and PDEase is $500.  Macsyma works with Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP.  There are unresolved issues with Macsyma running on versions of Windows beyond XP that preclude it's use with these operating system at this time."
And Lisp programs have run on Windows for nearly 28 years (LispWorks 4.0 by Harlequin, Mar 1997).
cola ignoramuses and liars often make up shit about so-and-so technology not available for Windows, but you bozos are almost always wrong.