Dear Linuxcnc Users, I've been talking with a gentleman from NASA who worked on the last version of APT (APT 4 SSX 8) developed with public funding, about releasing the code for everyone's use and education. After some searching, a copy of this has been found. This program is written in Fortran and is a much more recent vintage (ran on Sun Workstations) than the IBM360 version we currently have to work with. It also has improvements to the pocketing routines developed at NASA.
As with any activity involving governments, a great deal of paperwork needs doing to ensure that the activity is justified, causes no harm to U.S. interests, doesn't discriminate against people with disabilities, or people who are members of a protected class, etc. All i's must be dotted and t's crossed before the code can be released. The area I need help with is (for lack of a better term) "justification". That is; Will releasing this code be helpful to any U.S. based companies or educational institutions? If you represent (or are a part of, or participate in, or are otherwise involved with) a U.S. based company or educational institution, of any size, AND would benefit in any way from the availability of this source code, I would like to hear from you. At the moment, all I need is some idea of: 1. Who you are. 2. What company or institution. 3. A BRIEF (one or two sentences will do, though more is fine) description of what benefit you would receive. Later on this may have to be written on your company or school letterhead, but for now a short reply to this post would be very welcome. I would also be interested in hearing from any people with experience in Fortran who would be interested in helping port this code to the Linux platform. If you could indicate your level of Fortran experience and any reasons for your interest in this code, that would be very helpful. Please also speak up if you have an interest in studying the algorithms in the existing Fortran with an eye towards reimplementing them in another programming language. Thanks, Matt Shaver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
