On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:39 AM, ccandide <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 5 juin, 05:47, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> I'd recommend compiling from source, especially given a processor of
>> that age (though it might take quite a while given your clockspeed).
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> "a processor of that age" ??? "your clockspeed" ???? Pentium 4
> (1.60GHz) + 512 MB ram is not
> hardware for embedded system. This class of machine was very common 5
> years ago.
> Back to Earth : are you aware you can do a lot of algorithmics and
> visualisation with a processor 10 times less powerfull ? Remember
> Maple V.3 under Windows 3.1 in the middle of the nineties. I use
> Maple 10 to illustrate some undergraduate math courses I give so my
> needs are very basic : symbolic calculus, linear algebra, plotting
> and programming capabilities.
>
> It is very unfortunate that Sage has adopted the Microsoft Vista
> upgrading Model.
>
> A suggestion : provide a light version that would meet the needs of
> many of the potential Sage users (if not the majority of them).
Maybe you should install Python + sympy + numpy + matplotlib? That
would give you programming, linear algebra, symbolic calculus, and
programming.
Those packages are all already in sage-windows (a half-way lightweight
native port of Sage to windows):
http://windows.sagemath.org
You might want to try the msi there.
William
William
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