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From: rns@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Rick Schubert)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.math.stat,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seeking info on BioStat programs for PC or Mac
Keywords: statistical software; sas
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Date: 20 Mar 89 19:27:31 GMT
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In article <433@wubios.wustl.edu> phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller) writes:
>I have had reasonable experience with using such large datasets on SAS on a
>PC.  You definitely do not want an original XT with its 10Meg disk.  You want
>a 286 or 386 processor, you want 2-4Meg of LIM Spec 4.0 memory, and obviously
>for this type of data you want a large, fast disk.


Would an 80*87 be useful and/or advisable for SAS (or other statistical
packages, for that matter)?


-- Rick Schubert (rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM)