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In article <9610001@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> wayne@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Wayne Covington) writes:
>digennar@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov (Frank S. DiGennaro) asked for opinions
>on MathCad.  So in a further effort to provoke a response from any MathCad
>users out there ...
>
>The advertisement with the $79 offer tells a person very little about what
>it can and cannot do.  So I visited some computer bookstores yesterday in
>hopes of learning more, but none of them had any books on MathCad.  Nor do I
>recall many MathCad postings in this group, even after Frank posted his
>inquiry.  If they are on version 3.1, it must have been around long enough
>to acquire a following.  Perhaps MathCad is shunned because its capabilities
>fall short of those of Maple, Mathematica, and other commonly mentioned
>computer algebra systems?


MathCad is not 'shunned', sir.  I am very impressed with Mathcad. I use
it, Macsyma and Mathematica regularly and MathCad is the cheapest, 
easiest to use math package there is.  I agree it does not have
the amount of funtions and procedures that the other packages have but
it is also a tiny fraction of the cost. It's interface is *much* moer 
user friendly and it does the daily calculations and plotting in 
a straightforward way.

It is a 'helluva' calculator for 80 bucks.


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David Knapp                                      University of Colorado, Boulder
Perpetual Student                                   knapp@spot.colorado.edu