[Axiom-developer] Re: bootstrap Meta/Boot

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

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>> Derive ....
> 
> Derive is a fantastic program and often outperformed everything else.
> It is historically interesting, in the "Newton's Notebooks" sense.
> 
> I have spent the last few months trying to convince TI to either
> release the original derive lisp code (which they no longer use)
> or to write a "dead safe" clause that would release the code if
> TI lost interest. It went up the management chain at TI.
> 
> As of last week the effort officially failed.
> 
> Tim
Presumably because they included parts of it in their "new, improved" TI
NSpire product line/vaporware.

Speaking (again) of TI, I've encountered bugs in the derivative finder
on the TI-89 and Voyage 200 calculators. The software for those is
frozen too, because of NSpire. I love my HP-49. :)