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Stata 8: Will Stata 8 for Mac run natively in OS X?

Title   Stata 8: Will Stata 8 for Mac run natively in OS X?
Author Chinh Nguyen, StataCorp

Stata 8 for Mac is a PowerPC application that requires a PowerPC Mac running Mac OS X 10.1 or newer. Stata 8 should not be run on Intel Macs because Mac OS X runs PowerPC applications under emulation on Intel Macs and will produce incorrect results. Stata 9 or newer is required for Intel Macs.