On: Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011)

[anthk]

Maxima it's the continuation of Macsyma.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma

[detourdog → anthk]

I used your prompt to look into Macsyma which led me to maxima. What a great tool I just finished the 10 minute tutorial.

https://mathblog.com/a-10-minute-tutorial-for-solving-math-p...

[jjtheblunt → anthk]

I know that, but did it have the notebook interface like people call Jupyter nowadays, which was based on IPython which was an explicitly described honoring of Mathematica for Python?

I ask because I don't know if Macsyma had that...we had a university site license for Mathematica so in my case I never had Macsyma to play with back then.