On Nov 23, 2008, at 12:27 AM, Thomas Madden wrote: > 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) >
Interesting, since I have a G4 Mac Mini running Maple 11 without much difficulty. I've also been using it on an Intel Core Duo Mac Mini and my Core 2 Duo MacBook. > 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. > As a fellow Maple user, I highly recommend that you look at the new symbolics in Sage, pynac. While support is still incomplete, it has capabilities more similar to Maple than the Maxima-based symbolics. It also tends to be much faster than the Maxima symbolics too. Cheers, Tim. --- Tim Lahey PhD Candidate, Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
