Wolfram Research Inc of Champaign, Illinois says that Mathematica 2.0, an enhanced version of its system for technical computing, is shipping for Microsoft Corp Windows environment: the system has a kernel, which performs computations, and a front end, which handles user-interaction with the user; under Microsoft Windows 3.0, the Mathematica front end provides interactive documents known as notebooks, in which text, graphics, animation and sound can be mixed with active Mathematica input; Mathematica notebooks running under Windows are interchangeable with notebooks created on Macintosh or NeXT Inc systems, and this enables users to exchange compound documents electronically; Mathematica 2.0 for Windows costs $1,000 while upgrades from MS-DOS go for $125.
