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Originally Posted by DrJ
I think this is not right. Windows has professional tools that simply are not available on *nix. For example,
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or even numerical simulation packages.
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You do not know what are you talking about. There are four major numerical analysis packages out there. MatLab, Mathematica, FreeMat, and SciLab. First two are proprietary and the last two are open source. All four work far better on Unix than on Windows.
The most famous computer Algebra software of general nature is Maple which is coded on the base of Maxima (original 1969 MIT project).
Guess what. Maxima is developed before Windows even existed and it is released under GPL2 licence now. Maple again runs far better on Unix.
More specialized projects like GAP (computational group theory) REQUIRE
Unix to run.
100% of all machines used by faculty, researches, and graduate students
at the research Universities in U. S. run Linux, Solaris, and BSD (I listed them in popularity in descending order).
Are you saying that we do not use professional numerical tools?