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On 17/01/2011 19:54, Donald E Hardy wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking for advice on purchasing a
workstation for corpus work. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">These are the software that I will be using
and operating systems that I am thinking I will need:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> R (e.g., for multiple runs of Fisher’s
exact test) <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Word<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Windows<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Linux<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Perl programs (multiple text manipulation
programs)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Excel<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Access<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Perhaps other SQL applications<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">XAIRA <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">ICECUP 3.1 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m sure there will be other software
packages added to the list.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Corpora include data gathered from Corpus
of Contemporary American English, Corpus of Historical
American English, BNC, Treebank, ICE-GB, Brown, Frown<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m looking at Dell workstations.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Recommendations I’m looking for are
operating system(s), CPU, RAM, Video card, hard disk, RAID.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am relatively computer literate (program
in Perl, manage a server); and, I do have expert technicians
for help and advice locally. However, I don’t have anyone
locally for advice on the best system setup for corpus
linguistic work. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks very much,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Don Hardy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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If you need to run different operating systems on the same machine I
suggest you look at running something like VirtualBox see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">http://www.virtualbox.org/</a><br>
You have a base operating system (say Windows) and can run Linux in
a virtual machine (It also workd the other way round).<br>
For this basically get as much memory as you can afford and divide
it between the two operating systems.<br>
Alternatively have a Windows machine and install Cygwin to get
Unix/Linux utilities.<br>
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Regards Paul<br>
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Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. (p91)</pre>
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