Date:         Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:59:27 +1000
Reply-To:     John Reece <reece@RMIT.EDU.AU>
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From:         John Reece <reece@RMIT.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Re. SPSS & Macs
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>>It's quite simple really: SPSS have stopped developing for the Mac, and
>>V.6.1.1 is going to be their last release for the Mac. Other companies,
>>such as SAS, Stata, and, to a lesser extent, Statsoft, have publicly
>>confirmed their continuing support for the MacOS. There is enormous
>>variation in the problems that people have with running 6.1.1 on various
>>verions of MacOS. My generally conclusion is that if you are reasonably
>>Mac-savvy you will not have major problems (although there will be some who
>>will disagree with that). SPSS 7.0, 7.5, and 8.0 will run under Virtual PC,
>>but you need express pace hardware and heaps of RAM.
>
>
>Please clarify.  What is "express pace hardware"?
 
Any G3 equipped Mac with at least 64MB RAM (128MB would be better) and 1MB
Level 2 cache (VirtualPC 2.0 pulls a lot from the level 2 cache). Virtual
PC will run under any 604 or 604e Mac or a 603 Mac running at 180MHZ or
greater, but on anything but a G3 it's slow (too slow for me).
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