dear hugh,
i use stata for unix on a server at my university, and it wll give me as
much as 4.077 gigabites. i'm not sure how much of that is b/c the server
is a more powerful computer & how much is b/c unix is a faster operating
system. either way, i'd recommend finding a university server (or
something comparable).
another approach that i try occasionally is to perform the most
computationally intensive operations in SAS for windows. at a given level
of computing power, SAS can handle some large datasets that stata can't
b/c SAS manipulates the data observation-by-observation rather than
loading the whole dataset in at once.
chris
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Hugh Gross wrote:
> Currently I am using a Pentium 4 processor and Windows XP Professional
> operating system. The maximum amount of memory available to Stata is
> approximately 1.3 gig.
>
> I would like to have 10-16 gigs of memory, the more the better.
>
> What do people suggest?
>
> Should I try to work around the limitation on Windows? Should I consider
> another operating system and/or hardware platform?
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Hugh Gross
> [email protected]
>
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