dave@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Dave Rasmussen) (09/11/85)
There has been growing interest on our campus among statisticians to be able to use SAS, a statistical package. From my understanding of SAS, you either need a moderately configured mainframe (an IBM 43xx series, for example) for alot of $$, or you can get a micro version, which probably will not handle large data sets gracefully. My question is, does anyone know if this package is available for say, a Unix mini of some sort?
hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (09/12/85)
> My question is, does anyone know if this package is available for say, a > Unix mini of some sort? I just called SAS, and they do not have a version of SAS for unix, nor do they have it on their list of stuff they have in development. They have had a number of requests for a unix version. If you want to enquire further SAS is at 919 467 8000 and ask for Software Sales. --henry schaffer n c state univ (std. disclaimer - also SAS and unix are trademarks.)
edc@ur-msbvax.UUCP (09/13/85)
I have never heard of SAS on a Unix machine. SAS is available on Vax's
running VMS. You could bring up Eunice, or some other partial imitation
of Unix, on the same machine.
Eric Carleen
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Phone: (716)-275-5391root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) (09/14/85)
Check with SAS, I believe they are currently re-coding their entire system from PL/I to C to improve portability. They are also involved with (marketing) some new C compiler to help them do this, I believe most of that interest had to do with the IBM/370 series machines. I can't help but suspect that this effort by them has *something* to do with running under UNIX. -Barry Shein, Boston University
hachong@watmath.UUCP (Herb Chong) (09/15/85)
In article <645@bu-cs.UUCP> root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein) writes: >Check with SAS, I believe they are currently re-coding their entire >system from PL/I to C to improve portability. They are also involved >with (marketing) some new C compiler to help them do this, I believe >most of that interest had to do with the IBM/370 series machines. they worked with lattice to develop the C compiler and are marketing it as a separate product for the various machines that SAS is supported on. SAS Version 5 is mostly written in C. >I can't help but suspect that this effort by them has *something* to >do with running under UNIX. according to their glossies and SAS Comunnications, the main reason was that most of SAS is written in PL/I or FORTRAN with a lot of assembler subroutines and they wanted to standardize on one language that gave them the power neccessary to do systemy things. PL/I allows most of them, but very few systems other than IBM and VMS have a good PL/I compiler. they might have chosen modula-2 if compilers had been more available on more machines. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... (will disappear soon) UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!hachong CSNET: hachong%watmath@waterloo.csnet ARPA: hachong%watmath%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa