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barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
: I thought I heard that there is a Mathematica Version 2.0.1
: or some such for the NeXT, that fixes some memory management bugs 
: in the 2.0, and that this was a free upgrade. Is this true?
: 
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: Barry Merriman
: UCLA Dept. of Math
: UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
: barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
: 
: 
It's 2.0.4.5 (Lord what a system! Good thing they can set arbitrary 
precision) and I received mine *free* after phoning WRI with what I thought
was a significant bug (turned out to be mainly a bug between my left ear and
my right one :-).  In fact, they told me it would get here in a week,and
when it was held up they shipped it by International FedEx, charging me not
one penny!  It's far superior, especially if you have an 8Mb machine because
of the "slim" kernel, and fixes lots of little bugs in the Help menus,
some in the integration routines, etc.  Bugs remain to be sure and it's
still possible, particularly when doing lots of postscript graphics stuff, 
to eat a Meg of disc a minute, but  definitely call for it and install it.
There has apparently been some confusion as to whether WRI will give this out
for free and I suggest you *firmly but politely* try to get ahold of someone
who understands that "yes, this one is free."  

Hope this is Helpful

Tom

Barry Merriman <barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu> writes:
>I thought I heard that there is a Mathematica Version 2.0.1
>or some such for the NeXT, that fixes some memory management bugs 
>in the 2.0, and that this was a free upgrade. Is this true?

Yeah, there is an bux-fix 2.0 upgrade. You have to bug them for it.
I have (from the outside of the packet), v2.0.4.5. Before that I had
2.0.2.

	Richard.

P.S.

If you don't have the following files, you have an incomplete distribution 
and should definately get the upgrade.

.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/00.GettingStarted..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/01.CalculatorOperations..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/02.AlgebraTrig..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/03.SolvingEquations..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/04.Calculus_D.E..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/05.LinearAlgebra..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/06.NumericalOperations..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/07.Numbers_Lists..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/08.MathFunctions..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/09.TransformationRules..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/10.2-DGraphics..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/11.3-DGraphics..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/12.Animation_Sound..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/13.Programming..m[ab]
.../Notebooks/KernelHelp/14.SystemOps..m[ab]

Some people don't. I didn't, until I got my upgrade.
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