Tag for questions about compatibility among various versions of Mathematica, and compatibility issues of Mathematica with various operating systems.
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Internal “Periodical” functions in version 7
In version 7 there exist these Internal` context functions:
?Internal`*Periodical*
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Mathematica 9 does not read mathematica 8 “.mx” files
Having written a lot of code on M8, I recently switched to M9 and tried to run the code on M9, the code starts by loading an .mx file written by M8, but M9 wouldn't read the .mx file saying that it ...
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Does Mathematica 8 work on Windows 8?
I just saw that Windows 8 RTM has showed up on Technet, and I've been wondering if I should upgrade my main machine. I've been trying to determine the compatibility of various app with Windows 8 and ...
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Interpreting the interpolating function and saving data to plot with external program
So far I have been solving non-linear pdes with NDSolve and then plotting the result with the in-built Plot3D and ...
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Good way to discriminate between Mathematica/PlayerPro/CDFPlayer
Within a Mathematica program with a graphical user interface I want to programmatically determine whether the code runs in a full Mathematica, a Player Pro or a CDF-Player. There seem to not be any ...
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Why does Hash return different values in Version 7?
This function does not work correctly for me. The generated Gravatars do not match the ones actually produced by using the corresponding address.
The problem was traced to differing output from the ...
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Reading Early Version Notebooks
I have some very old Mathematica notebooks file (.m) files from Version 2. When I try to open them using Mathematica 8.0 (on a Linux system) Mathematica instantly shuts down (no error message - just ...
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Does Mathematica v.8 (or will v.9) run on Windows 8 systems with ARM processors? (like the MS Surface Tablet)
Today I was reading that the Microsoft Surface RT is available for pre-order. (For the curious, click here.)
I know the version of Widows 8 that runs on x86 processors should be compatible already ...
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CycleIndex in v8
If I type
?CycleIndex
I get
Information::notfound: Symbol CycleIndex not found. >>
If I then type
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Will Mathematica install and run on Raspberry Pi computer?
My club is considering buying a Raspberry Pi computer for tinkering. Can Mathematica be installed on and ran from it?
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Automatically detecting code that will not run on earlier versions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Automated testing for compatibility with older Mathematica versions
On my personal computer, I am running version 8.0.4, but on a compute cluster I would like to work ...
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Backward compatibility issues while DumpSaving Interpolation polynomials
I have bkwrd compatibility issues when I save my NDSolve result (which is an interpolating polynomia) using DumpSave from Mathematica 8 on Windows 7 and then try ...
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Compatibility of Mathematica Notebooks written on Mac with Windows
I wrote a notebook on Mac OS 10.7.4 and run it on Windows XP at work. On my Mac I use a full version of Mathematia 8.0.1.0, whereas on the Windows-system only a trial version (Version 8.0.4.0.).
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backward compatibility
When producing or enhancing code, it is tempting to use recent new primitives of Mathematica introduced in version 7 and 8, but for library code or in preparation or future version change in ...
