interesting

Post by **S@M** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:59 pm

SPSS does not support the use of any existing version of SPSS for Mac OS X on the new Intel®-based Mac hardware. The use of the Rosetta emulation software interferes with numerical calculations in SPSS and may give invalid results. We therefore are unable to support any version of SPSS on Intel®-based Macintosh machines

Post by **Canis** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:12 am

What is SPSS?

Post by **JulesWinnfield** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:40 am

http://www.spss.com/

looks like smap.

Post by **S@M** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:12 am

statistical package - not really interesting but I hadnt posted here for ages

Post by **Dave** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:23 pm

A lot of mathmatical and scientific software require strict federal government validated hardware and OS combinations, especially lab equipment like an HPLC. We can't patch our Windows 2000 boxes hooked up to HPLCs because it invalidates the OS... They'll get owned on occasion if we're not careful. I suspect that SPSS can't guarantee the validtiy of Rosetta backed calculations so they take the safe road. There's really no point to validate it if they want people to eventually buy a universal version.

Post by **S@M** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 5:10 am

the next version out is supposed to be a universal update, cant say I blame them either. Get a few p values wrong and people go a little crazy,