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User Preferences for S+ operating systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon L. Epstein)
Mon Mar 6 16:48:48 1995
From: k9ape@eden.eecs.nwu.edu (Sheldon L. Epstein)
To: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu (newsgroup splus)
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 15:25:01 -0600 (CST)
> If you haven't already let me know what operating system you would like
> to see S-Plus on, please let me know. Right now this is the tally:
>
>
> OS/2 6
> Unix 5
> PowerPc 5
> Windows 2
> NextStep 1
> Linux 1
> All Systems 1
>
>
> Although the numbers are still very small, the response has been that
> other than Unix (which is the workstation standard), the operating
> systems that StatSci supports are not necessarily what the users want.
>
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> Kevin K. Watanabe Westat, Inc.
> Computational Sciences and Informatics Phone: (301) 251-1500
> George Mason University FAX: (301) 738-8379
> email: kwatanab@science.gmu.edu email: watanak1@westat.com
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Sorry Ken; but, your sample may not be statistically significant given
the thousands of licenses out there. In fact, StatSci has census data
- so they don't need to use estimates.
We have two licenses for the WINDOWS version, so change that total from
2 to 4.
We're waiting to see what WINDOWS 95 looks like before we make a decision
to stay with Microsoft or move over to IBM.
We have learned that the hardware used makes a big difference on how
S+ performs in the PC world. On our 486 DX4 100 MHz GMX computers
with 7200 RPM SCSI-2 Drives and 16 MBytes of RAM, it seems to run about as
fast as on a workstation.
What is your preference?
Shel Epstein, k9ape@eecs.nwu.edu
