Re: st: stata 9, microsoft vista, and big datasets

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

When it comes to MS products, I'm a late adopter. I'm hoping that
my 4GB of RAM will one day be useful, but I'm not chancing Vista
until at least SR1...

Jeph

Pierre Azoulay wrote:
> 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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