On Nov 22, 8:16 pm, mabshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
dortmund.de> wrote:
> On Nov 22, 8:14 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Thomas Madden
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> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > On Nov 22, 5:59 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Thomas Madden
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> > > [snip]
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> > > William and David,
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> > > Thanks very much for the quick responses. I have been keeping
> > > an eye on Sage for about a year or so now but was unable to use it
> > > due to hardware and OS constraints. With a recent upgrade I am
> > > finally getting a chance to get started and I am really looking
> > > forward
> > > to using it.
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> Out of curiosity: What were the constraints?
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> > > Thanks for your efforts with this project. I hope that in time I will
> > > learn
> > > enough to make some sort of contribution.
>
> > Thanks. I hope you don't quit Sage.
> > [That was a pun based on the subject of this thread.]
>
I will have to if I ever want to get any sleep again. But only
temporarily because I am having too much fun with it!
Michael,
I think I became aware of Sage about two years ago. At that time I was
using Maple and was content but the idea behind Sage really interested
me so I would periodically check up on it. Almost a year ago I noticed
that my %CPU use was maxing out when I was working in a Maple doc. I
was using a Power Book G4 and running OS X 10.3.9. I posted this at
mapleprimes and contacted support. The reply was that they could not
reproduce the behavior and that they would be dropping support for
that version of OS X since it was getting old. (other users confirmed
the behavior at mapleprimes)
Ironically, I had avoided upgrading to 10.4 because so many of the
Maple users were posting problems with it when it first came out. By
the time I noticed that most of the complaints seemed to have
dwindled news was already out about 10.5 so I figured I would just
wait for that version. Unfortunately, when it did come out my system
did not meet the minimum requirements.
I started to look at Sage as an alternative but I only found a
download for 10.4. I was planning to upgrade at that point and did not
want invest in 10.4 so I decided to wait. Somehow it turned into
almost an entire year. I just upgraded to a new MacBook Pro and Sage
is one of the first things I have installed.
Thomas
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