Macsyma

Macsyma is a computer algebra system, which is implemented in the language LISP. Maxima is an open- source version of Macsyma.

History

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

1982 gave MIT a version of Macsyma to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE ), one of the main sponsors of the project. This version was known as DOE Macsyma. On it rests the open source version of Maxima.

Symbolics 1982 acquired a license for the development of Macsyma. Symbolics Macsyma developed for some years, but it ultimately felt incidental to their main business, the sale of Lisp machines. Due to the lack of interest of Symbolics Macsyma continue to develop and ported to other systems, such as PCs, Macsyma dramatically lost market share. Had Macsyma 1987 still held a 70% share of the market of symbolic computer algebra systems, the proportion fell back to 1991, to 1%.

Richard Petti and Russell Noftsker, founder of Symbolics, founded in 1992 Macsyma Inc., bought from Symbolics Macsyma and led development continues for several years. Macsyma Inc. but managed not to secure a larger market share compared to other computer algebra systems.

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