Schoonschip

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Schoonschip
       
           (From the Dutch for "beautiful ship" or
          "clean ship") A program for {symbolic mathematics}, especially
          High Energy Physics, written by M. Veltman of CERN in 1964.
          Schoonschip only does algebra, no derivatives.  It was


          implemented originally in {CDC-6600} and {CDC-7600} {assembly
          language} and currently in {680x0} {assembly language}.
          Latest versions run on {Amiga}, {Atari ST}, {Sun-3} and
          {NeXT}.
       
          It was once maintained by David Williams at the {University of
          Michigan} Physics Department.
       
          {(ftp://archive.umich.edu/physics/schip)}.
       
          (2000-11-14)