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Example: Mathematica

Basic system structure:

• Frontend process.
  • Interaction with user.
  • Notebook manipulation.
• Kernel process.
  • Actual computation.
  • Simple text-base interface.
• Communication by MathLink.
  • Message passing model.
  • C-based programming library.
  • Implemented by sockets.