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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 17 Dec 89 20:24:42 GMT
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First, I must apologize for my previous message. It was a bit
too personal. Thank you, Pete, for not starting a war.
Still, I stand by most of the content of my previous message.

Here is my latest (short) contribution to what appears to become
Pete's war against the rest of the world.

>Should you
>really be building a spreadsheet bigger than 1M or is that a job for an
>accounting package?

In my opinion, spreadsheets should be able to handle a few megabytes
worth of spreadsheet with a few thousand rows (problem in Mac's Full
Impact) easily.

>Oh, SYSTAT. I suppose that's a bad stats package, though. I don't know tons
>about stats pacakages, to tell you the truth. There are a number more than
>one, though.

Systat is pretty bad (although it is pretty expensive). The magic words
are SAS and S, furthermore Matlab, Gauss and (for small applications)
Minitab and (for TS) SCA. I guess everyone can insert his own favorites
after the "furthermore." S is available by now. True, full-blown SAS
is under development for the NeXT.


/Ivo Welch	ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu