On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 P.J.Wells@open.ac.uk wrote:
> Given that the new Macintosh OS X (or OS X 10.0, to quote Cupertino's
> official, if redundant, designation) is Unix-based, does this mean that Unix
> flavours of S-Plus will run on it without further ado?
No. First S-PLUS would need to be compiled for that, and although it is
Unix-alike, I am sure it is not Unix (which is a trademark: Solaris is
Unix, Linux is not). Experience with porting other things (like R)
suggests that MacOS X is a considerable outlier amongst Unix-alikes.
For example, its dynamic loading is completely non-standard.
> If so, what about the portability of S-Plus files between that environment
> and Windows versions?
All recent versions of S-PLUS can read each other's files, provided that
you don't expect S3-based variants (2000) to read S4-based variants (5.x,
6.x, including the upcoming 6.0 for Windows). But they can all read both
big-endian and little-endian files from the same S level.
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