Talk:Derive (computer algebra system)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Link to Soft Warehouse from "Derive (computer algebra system)" page redirects to CompUSA

Anybody who follows the link should will become well aware that the link is BROKEN and should be removed, which I am going to do right now, again, but without inserting any words and thus disrupting the flow of the article.

There NO Wikipedia link to the actual Soft Warehouse that was based in Honolulu and that developed computer software (specifically computer algebra systems). It no longer exists, as Texas Instruments purchased it and no longer supports any of its products.

Dslomer64 (talk) 15:51, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Use in TI calculators?

I have not yet seen any evidence that the TI-92 (Plus) and TI-89 use a Lisp-based CAS. The website in the side block says that it was integrated into the TI-nspire, but says nothing about the Motorola 68000-based graphing calculators (TI-92(+) and TI-89). Meanwhile, TI's official website[1] from the time only mentions compatibility, not that the same software is used on both.

I've been doing investigations into AMS (the 68000-based calculator's CAS), and it's mostly compiled C, with some bytecode. I find it hard to believe that AMS is just a relabelled build of Derive for an entirely different platform, especially without garbage collection used.

Does anyone have a source for the claim that Derive is used in these calculators? Asdf2jkl (talk) 16:53, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

I should have looked a bit farther. The french version of this page actually has references. For example, it shows that TI purchased Soft Warehouse in 1999[2], 4 years after the TI-92 was first released. That doesn't mean that the calculator can't include Derive. In fact, the french language version of TI's site claims that AMS is a collaboration between Soft Warehouse and TI[3] (and that's all that the page says about Derive 6).

This is not mentioned on the english language page. Furthermore, there is no mention of Soft Warehouse, Derive, or of the CAS being developed (in part) by an outside entity in the TI-89 / TI-92 Plus Developer Guide.[4] I have not seen evidence of AMS being based on Derive in my own, or in the calculator community's, reverse engineering efforts.

I think that this matter is in need of further investigation. Asdf2jkl (talk) 17:21, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

I have investigated to a great length. AMS is certainly not the same thing as Derive, as AMS was written in C with stack-based algebra, whereas Derive was written in muLISP. This is evidenced by what David Stoutemyer (the CAS expert at Soft Warehouse), as well as evidence from the calculators themselves. Also see US patent 20030122776A1.

I've updated the article to reflect this fact. Asdf2jkl (talk) 19:16, 15 December 2023 (UTC)