Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Info kindof peripheral to RISC rumors
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.002603.4787@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <SHAWN.91Mar8182847@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> <18424@cs.utexas.edu> <30907@usc>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 00:26:03 GMT

In article <30907@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

[material regarding Sparc clones and the large number of Sun applications]

>To many professionals, there are certain applications which 
>make-or-break a machine.  For me, e.g., a decent stat package is
>a total necessity (SAS doesn't qualify). 

[Comment re the need to pay the bills...]
 
>Running SPARC-Stata would make my migration to NeXT a lot easier.

Well if you are looking for a serious research oriented statistical
package you couldn't do better than to use S. I'm sitting here at
my cube running New S on the 040. It's pretty hard to beat.

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.toronto.edu