Wolfram Research hatte bereits in den 90er Jahren eine Kooperation mit der hochinnovativen Firma NeXT. Die Computer von NeXT (Cubes und Stations) wurden, ähnlich wie heute die Raspberry Pi, mit einer gebündelten, akademischen Version von Mathematica ausgeliefert.

Quelle 1: NeXTMathematica_WhitePaper.pdf

That Mathematica and NeXT products together make a great combination is no accident. As a company, NeXT was found- ed to provide innovative technology for educators and schol- ars. Indeed, Mathematica was effectively introduced to the world when NeXT announced its first computers in 1988.

Now, NeXT is reaffirming its commitment to educational inno- vation—by bundling Mathematica with every computer sold to education, by collaborating with Wolfram Research, Inc., on an innovative front-end to Mathematica, and by optimizing our system’s performance to maximize throughput for Mathe- matica users. Mathematica is a revolutionary tool that can fundamentally change the way we teach numerically inten- sive subjects, and the way students visualize mathematical relations.

Quelle 2: Ich war dabei und hab es erlebt =)