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RE: st: Stata for Pocket PC?


From   "Salvati, Jean" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Stata for Pocket PC?
Date   Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:33:11 -0500

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.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Ronan M Conroy ([email protected])
> > Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
> > Royal College of Surgeons
> > Dublin 2, Ireland
> > +353 1 402 2431 (fax 2764)
> > --------------------
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