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[mathcad] Re: Mathcad 11-12 compatibility
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Author: Mike Austin
Posted: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:21:51 +0100
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<LIST!MANAGER-372271-685009-2005.08.15-09.29.53--mike#lamrim.org.uk@lists
.adeptscience.co.uk>, Bill Brady "Bbrady" writes
>I am a longtime Mathcad user, going back to version 2.5 (Dos). My last
>upgrade was to version 2000, which I use at home with never a crash. My
>employer has version 2001 installed on a workstation, and three of us
>share this -- again, without a hitch. I became suspicious when Mathsoft
>released three versions of Mathcad within a year (2000, 2001, and
>2001i) with very little value added per upgrade according to the press
>release(s). Along came version 11, and according to the Mathcad co
>llaboratory this version took several patches and version mods to
>become stable. Apparently, just when they got the bugs out of version
>11, Mathcad released version 12 (supposedly a complete re-write) and
>this is proving to be a disaster! The majority of users I've read
>refuse to fire 12 up -- relying instead on 11. In addition to being
>very buggy, apparently the extension packs won't work with version 12
>requiring another upgrade to those.
>So Sydney, my advice is, unless you absolutely, positively require a
>feature version 12 has that version 8 doesn't (and I'd be hard pressed
>to believe there's a function in 12 that couldn't be hacked in 8),
>re-install your version 8 and be happy. If Mathsoft offers you (even at
>a bargain) version 13 -- if it's based on version 12, I believe you'd
>be throwing good money after bad. Mathsoft took an extremely reliable
>and enormously valuable program and managed to ruin it.
I am also a long time Mathcad user (since version 2.0 Dos). Mathcad has
been variable in its reliability since version 7 as far as I can recall.
According to my experience, version 8 was so poor it was unusable. Then
version 2000 was OK until I upgraded to Windows 2000 when it screwed up
files with 11pt Times text. I skipped version 2001. Version 2001i had a
few major bugs which were largely fixed with service packs. Version 11
was OK. There were service packs, but I did not experience the problems
they fixed anyway. Version 12 was unusable until the service packs were
installed. I mainly use 12.1 now, but sometimes revert to 11.2 because
of compatibility.
I found Mathcad 6 to be the most reliable. However, since having had to
upgrade to 7, I have unwittingly had to subscribe to a constant version
upgrade as fixes for bugs in earlier versions becomes phased out.
Mathcad 13 is on the horizon. As far as I understand, it is possible to
run Mathcad versions from 11 at the same time. From experience, I don't
expect the first issue of a new Mathcad version to be reliable. Running
Mathcad versions concurrently provides some safeguard against this.
I would not recommend anyone to stay with version 8. If they can go for
11 or above, they can at least revert back to an earlier version format
if there are any problems with later versions.
--
Mike Austin
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