On Sunday, September 13, 2015, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
> On 13 September 2015 at 18:31, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wst...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, September 13, 2015, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) < >> drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk');>> wrote: >> >>> A ticket I opened years ago about a problem on AIX, got closed recently. >>> It got me thinking about something whose usefulness could well extend >>> beyond one issue building Sage on AIX. >>> >>> I gather William is having problems getting funding from NSF and similar >>> places. I wonder if it's time to look at this a different way. Based on >>> things in the past >>> >>> 1) Sun sponsored a port to Solaris, and paid the salary of someone. >>> >> >> You are misremembering slightly. Sun didn't give us a penny and >> definitely didn't fund Michael Abshoff to work on the port. Sun gave >> UW one computer and some publicity, then a few months later they got bought >> buy oracle and all education outreach went silent. >> > > OK, I was mistaken. It is a long time ago - back in 2009 we got t2.math I > think. > > >> >> >> >>> Unfortunately the computer they donated (t2) was not suited to the task, >>> but that is irrelevant now. We did eventually get Sage ported to Solaris. >>> >>> 2) Someone from IBM contacted William some time ago an IBM funded port >>> to AIX. I got involved, as I did have an AIX box, but nothing ever came of >>> it. >>> >> >> We exchanged emails back and forth for a while which got my hopes up >> temporarily but it was very clear there would be $0 support there. >> > > Agreed, the AIX interested from someone at IBM did go anywhere. But that > does not mean that an approach to other hardware/software vendors would > fail. If funding has dried up from research grants, perhaps another > approach is needed. > > I won't be pursuing this. I can only do so many things at once, and not focusing would ensure failure. If somebody else wants to try, please go for it! > Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sage-devel@googlegroups.com');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my massive iPhone 6 plus. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
