Having said all that, I have fond memories of running RATS on a 16MHz Mac notebook without a floating point unit in the good old days :)
Jean
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Salvati, Jean
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:25 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: st: Stata for Pocket PC?
>
> I can think of at least one non-trivial issue in porting
> math-intensive applications to PDA platforms (including
> PocketPC): current-generation PDA cpu don't include a
> floating point unit. This has at least two negative implications.
>
> First, all floating-point computations must be emulated using
> fixed-point arithmetics. Intel provides a library that makes
> the process easier, but that's not true of all cpu providers.
>
> Second, of course, the resulting code is much slower than
> code compiled for, and running on a dedicated floating point unit.
>
> Jean Salvati
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron�n
> > Conroy
> > Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 6:05 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: st: Stata for Pocket PC?
> >
> > Peter Jepsen wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Statalisters,
> > >
> > > I'm about to buy a Pocket PC, and I'm thinking that it
> > would be really
> > > great if it could run Stata. Is that possible? And if not
> (which I
> > > suspect, as the Stata website does not say anything about
> > Pocket PC),
> > > does anyone know whether it will be?
> > >
> > I did my best, over dinner, a year or two ago, to convince
> Bill Gould
> > that a statistics package for the Palm was the obvious development.
> > And Stata has an ideal architecture to do it, since a user could
> > install a basic Stata engine and then the ados they wanted
> to use, in
> > the way that, say, MetrO users download the transport networks they
> > need.
> >
> > Memory and speed on PDAs are increasing to the point where serious
> > statistics would be possible. Certainly, a basic version of
> Stata that
> > did the sorts of routine data manipulations and statistics
> that Stata
> > 1 did would be a boon on PDA. I take my Palm and folding keyboard
> > everywhere, and do most of my work on it, but have to lug my laptop
> > with me when there are statistics involved.
> >
> > I don't think we'll get an official announcement from
> StataCorp - not
> > their style - but I wonder how many other Stata users feel the need
> > for stats on their PDA.
> >
> > --
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> > Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
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