Re: st: linux vs windows for Stata (not Stata related anymore)

[Henrik Stovring <hstovring@health.sdu.dk>]

Briefly, the bits mentioned concerns bandwidth in the internal cpu. 
Ordinary Intel Pentium PC's are 32 bit machines, the old Intel 286 was 
16 bit, and generally a doubling of cpu bandwidth has very beneficial 
effects on the number crunching ability of a computer, which in turns 
means a lot to applications like Stata.

Redhat linux does come in 64 bit versions (cf 
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/features/) as does some free linux 
distributions (fedora). As far as I know Microsoft has released 64 bit 
beta version of XP, but apparently no official release is likely to 
appear any time soon.

If you want to run 64 bit Stata you need to tell Stata Corp this, so 
that you get an appropriate license.

Best,

Henrik

Guillaume Frechette wrote:


> > One potential advantage of a GNU/linux version of Stata over Windows 
> > is that there is
> > already a 64-bit version of Stata for Linux already available whilst 
> > there is no such
> > version available for windows...yet (this is of course only relevant 
> > if the remote
> > computer is running a 64-bit operating system).
>
> Thanks Henrik, Neil, and Sam. I must confess ignorance about 64 (or 
> any) bit operating systems however? Does Redhat linux and Windows XP 
> or 2000 run in 64 bits? Do you need to specify the number of bits of 
> your OS when you buy Stata if you want to use the 64-bit?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> g
>
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