Date:         Fri, 12 Apr 2002 07:57:53 -0400
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From:         Nathaniel Wooding <Nathaniel_Wooding@DOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS vs. 1.0 ?
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Here's a slight ammendment to Fabrizio's comments on pre-historic SAS.


The developement started around 1967 at NCSU under a Federal grant. The
original developer was Jim Barr. Jim Goodnight came on board a year or so
later. I started grad school at NCSU in the fall of 1969 and the packaged
existed on the mainframe in a rudimentary form. In the very early years you
submitted a mainframe job that printed a manual for you. I seem to recall
an actual printed manual that was perhaps a half inch thick. As far as I
know, the package was being offered on the market for a nominal fee. SAS 72
was released while the project was still housed on the NCSU campus. I
finally left school in 1973 and at that time, a copy sold to a business
cost $100 or so (government prices were cheaper due to the grant). It was
fairly soon after this that the package was deemed to be a viable product
and the grant stopped. John Sall had joined by this point. The group moved
accross the street from NCSU and the institute was born.  Jim Barr left
around 1980.

Nat Wooding