Derive, A Mathematical Assistant for Your Personal Computer
date: label: Date made
content: 1988
name: label: maker
content: Soft Warehouse
notes: label: Description
content: Derive was a computer algebra system, developed as a successor to muMATH by the Soft Warehouse in Honolulu, Hawaii, acquired by Texas Instruments in 1999. Derive was implemented in muLISP, also by Soft Warehouse. The first release was in 1988. It was discontinued on June 29, 2007 in favor of TI-Nspire. The last and final version was Derive 6.1 for MS-Windows.
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content: Since Derive required comparably little memory, it was suitable for use on older and smaller machines. It was available only for Windows and DOS platforms and was used also in TI pocket calculators.
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content: This example of the product was used at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
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content: References:
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content: Wikipedia “Derive”
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Amherst College, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.3054.01
label: catalog number
content: 1999.3054.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1999.3054
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Software
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23.4 cm x 18.7 cm x 2 cm; 9 3/16 in x 7 3/8 in x 13/16 in