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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><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></div></body></html>