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 More options Jan 29 2009, 3:55 pm
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From: dpb <n...@non.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:55:31 -0600
Local: Thurs, Jan 29 2009 3:55 pm
Subject: Re: how to declare doubles in f95
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Gordon Sande wrote:
> On 2009-01-29 16:31:22 -0400, n...@cam.ac.uk said:

>> In article <glt39e$9f...@aioe.org>, dpb  <n...@non.net> wrote:

>>>> However, may I point out that the vast majority of statistical (and
>>>> many other) packages of that era were written in Fortran, and very
>>>> few were even ported to those machines?
>>> ...
>>> I have no way of know percentages of totals, of course, but certainly we
>>> had at least two statistical packages and more general purpose packages
>>> (IMSL, specifically, comes to mind) on the CDCs.  I was never aware of
>>> not having something suitable for the task, certainly although my
>>> particular area was to maintain/enhance proprietary (civilian) nuclear
>>> codes rather than utilize other packages but did on occasion use them...

>> IMSL was a library, not a package - those terms were distinguished,
>> then.  SPSS, Genstat, Minitab, Clustan etc.  The first was ported
>> to the CDCs, but rather half-heartedly; I don't think any of the
>> others were.

>> Regards,
>> Nick Maclaren.

> A selection bias problem rears its ugly head as you name packages which
> were common the UK but rare in North America. ...

I wasn't much into statistical computing per se at the time but of those
only SPSS do I recall as being in time and it sorta' seems like it was
rather late to have made the CDC party, anyway.  That of course, could
simply be specialization area bias, I don't know.

Seems like perhaps SAS was available; I can't recall--again my areas of
usage were in maintaining/developing "packages" for use of others in the
company rather than using them hence my concentration on "libraries"
rather than "packages".  I didn't know the distinction was of concern in
the question of availability; but I'd consider that in those days most
anybody I knew using CDC machines would have felt to put tools together
if required was just "part of the job"...

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