https://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/history/pastversions_maple6.aspx
notes
“Maple 6 marks the introduction of new numeric solvers from the Numeric Algorithms
Group (NAG) and the ability to create hybrid algorithms that take advantage of symbolic
preprocessing to improve results of numeric computations.”
links
notes
“Release 6.02 addresses platform-specific issues for the Windows and Macintosh operating
systems. The most recent version of Maple 6 for the UNIX and Linux operating systems
remains Release 6.01”