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Subject: Re:  Softwar
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 16:47:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 16:47:51 1984
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<>In the good old days, SAS only ran on IBM mainframes (360 & offspring)
and so there was the operating system (OS!) to ask for the date.  Most
large corporations use the date for all sorts of operations, and so
probably wouldn't want to set the wrong date at IPL (OS load) in order
to avoid paying lease costs.  (I believe the dissappearing act works.)
  Also SAS sells alot of (quite good) tutorial and technical manuals
and does a fair amount of answering bug requests over the phone and
sending out newsletters, updates, etc. -- none of which would be
readily  available if you weren't making lease payments (I assume they
would be suspicious ...)
--henry schaffer  genetics  ncsu