muMATH is a

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developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is implemented in the muSIMP programming language which is built on top of a

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dialect called . It supports

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and TRS-DOS (since muMATH-79),

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(since muMATH-80) and MS-DOS (in muMATH-83, the final version, which was published by Microsoft). The Soft Warehouse later developed Derive (computer algebra system), Derive, another computer algebra system. The company was purchased by

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in 1999, and development of Derive ended in 2006.

Literature

* David D. Shochat, ''A Symbolic Mathematics System'', Creative Computing, Oct. 1982, p. 26 * Gregg Williams, ''The muSIMP/muMATH-79 Symbolic Math system, a Review'', BYTE, Nov. 1980, p. 324 * Stuart Edwards, ''A Computer-Algebra-Based Calculating System'', BYTE 12/1983, pp- 481-494 (Describes a calculator application of muSIMP / muMATH doing automatic unit conversion.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mumath Computer algebra systems CP/M software Discontinued software Lisp (programming language) software