| Date: | Sat, 6 Mar 1999 04:55:56 +1100 |
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| Reply-To: | Tim Churches <tchur@bigpond.com> |
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| Sender: | "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> |
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| From: | Tim Churches <tchur@BIGPOND.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Fw: How many would buy SAS for linux? |
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Peter Crawford writes:
>Sounds like a good argument for only offering old releases of the
>software - say a non Y2K compliant version like v5
And F. Joseph Kelley writes:
>V5 was written in PL/I, Fortran and Assembly. A Linux port of that might
>not be so easy (remember how long the great recode took?).
Yes, I suspect that a V5 port to Linux would not be feasible due to the fact
that V5 was not written in C. So Version 6.x it has to be. Peter may be
right when he suggests that there is still too much commercial value in
V6.12 for SI to be interested in doing a free Linux version of it. How about
6.12 without the X windows graphical interface (character terminal and batch
mode only)? What else could SI leave out of a free SAS for Linux V6.12?
Tim Churches
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