Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!WUBIOS!PHIL From: phil@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (J. Philip Miller) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.sas-l Subject: JMP software features / Sun workstations (fwd) Message-ID: <9001150134.AA04657@wubios.WUstl.EDU> Date: 15 Jan 90 00:34:37 GMT Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" Reply-To: "J. Philip Miller" Lines: 26 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway Return-Path: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL13] Comments: To: SAS-L Mailing List > But I do like Sun workstations (speed thrills!). Since the Sun works (in many > respects) like a Mac, is there any possibility that the SAS platformed on the > Sun will be modified to allow it to do what you can do with JMP on a Mac? In > my mind, this would be the ultimate union of two technologies. > > Given that SAS now resides on a number of high-end graphically oriented OS > platforms, why not make the full-blown SAS package work like JMP on this kind > of hardware? > Two thoughts: 1) JPM was not written with portability in mind and converting from one graphics user interface (e.g. Mac) to another (e.g. Suntools) is not trivial at all. If JPM is very popular, then perhaps it will be rewritten in a portable fashion. 2) If you went to some of the formal demos, you saw the beginnings of many of these capiblities in mailine SAS/Graph. How quickly this actually gets out the door as a product will depend on how much SAS thinks this will add to their product. -- J. Philip Miller, Professor, Division of Biostatistics, Box 8067 Washington University Medical School, St. Louis MO 63110 phil@wubios.WUstl.edu - Internet (314) 362-3617 phil@wubios.wustl - bitnet uunet!wucs1!wubios!phil - UUCP C90562JM@WUVMD - alternate bitnet