History
The predecessor of the Magma system was named Cayley (1982–1993), after Arthur Cayley.
Magma was officially released in August 1993 (version 1.0). Version 2.0 of Magma was released in June 1996 and subsequent versions of 2.X have been released approximately once per year.
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