Editing MATLAB (section)

===Commercial development===
MATLAB was first released as a commercial product in 1984 at the Automatic Control Conference in [[Las Vegas]].<ref name="Chonacky Winch 2005 pp. 9–10" /><ref name="hobby" /> [[MathWorks]], Inc. was founded to develop the software<ref name="Press 2008 p. 6"/> and the MATLAB programming language was released.<ref name="Moler Little pp. 1–67" /> The first MATLAB sale was the following year, when [[Nick Trefethen]] from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] bought ten copies.<ref name="hobby" /><ref name="LoTurco 2020">{{cite web | last=LoTurco | first=Lori | title=Accelerating the pace of engineering | website=MIT News |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology | date=January 28, 2020 | url=https://news.mit.edu/2020/accelerating-pace-engineering-mathworks-fellows-0128 | access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> 

By the end of the 1980s, several hundred copies of MATLAB had been sold to universities for student use.<ref name="hobby" /> The software was popularized largely thanks to toolboxes created by experts in various fields for performing specialized mathematical tasks.<ref name="Xue Press 2020 p. 21" /> Many of the toolboxes were developed as a result of [[Stanford University|Stanford]] students that used MATLAB in academia, then brought the software with them to the private sector.<ref name="hobby" />

Over time, MATLAB was re-written for early operating systems created by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], [[VAX]],  [[Sun Microsystems]], and for Unix PCs.<ref name="hobby" /><ref name="Moler Little pp. 1–67" /> Version 3 was released in 1987.<ref name="Gatto Rizzoli 1993 pp. 85–88">{{cite journal | last1=Gatto | first1=Marino | last2=Rizzoli | first2=Andrea | title=Review of MATLAB, Version 4.0 | journal=Natural Resource Modeling | publisher=Wiley | volume=7 | issue=1 | year=1993 | issn=0890-8575 | doi=10.1111/j.1939-7445.1993.tb00141.x | pages=85–88| bibcode=1993NRM.....7...85G }}</ref> The first MATLAB compiler was developed by [[Stephen C. Johnson]] in the 1990s.<ref name="Moler Little pp. 1–67" />

In 2000, MathWorks added a Fortran-based library for linear algebra in MATLAB 6, replacing the software's original LINPACK and EISPACK subroutines that were in C.<ref name="Moler Little pp. 1–67" /> MATLAB's Parallel Computing Toolbox was released at the 2004 Supercomputing Conference and support for graphics processing units (GPUs) was added to it in 2010.<ref name="Moler Little pp. 1–67" />