st: stata 9, microsoft vista, and big datasets

["Pierre Azoulay" <pierre.azoulay@gmail.com>]

Dear Statalisters,

I am wondering if anyone tried to run stata/se or stata/mp under
vista. One well-known problem of windows XP (at least the 32-bit
version) is its inability to allocate large amounts of RAM to a single
application. Specifically, even with 4 GB of RAM installed, i was
never able to allocate more than 1.5 gb of RAM to stata. Memory
management is supposedly much better in vista. Did anyone tried to run
Stata on a beta version of vista, and if so, could they report on the
results, especially with respect to memory allocation?

Thanks

Pierre

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Pierre Azoulay
Assistant Professor of Strategy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
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