muMATH is a
computer algebra system (CAS), which was developed in the late 1970s and early eighties by Albert D. Rich and David Stoutemyer of
Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was implemented in the
muSIMP programming language which was built on top of a
LISP
A lisp is a speech impairment in which a person misarticulates sibilants (, , , , , , , ). These misarticulations often result in unclear speech.
Types
* A frontal lisp occurs when the tongue is placed anterior to the target. Interdental lisping ...
dialect called . Platforms supported were
CP/M
CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/ 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initial ...
and
TRS-DOS
TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack from 1977 through 1991. Tandy's manuals recommended tha ...
(since muMATH-79),
Apple II
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(since muMATH-80) and
DOS (in muMATH-83, the last version, which was published by
Microsoft).
The Soft Warehouse later developed
Derive, another computer algebra system. The company was purchased by
Texas Instruments 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.)
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Computer algebra systems
CP/M software
Discontinued software
Lisp (programming language) software