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Background
The
MDS(X) Project was originally funded (1974-1982) by the U.K. Social
Science Research Council in conjunction with the Program Library Unit of
the University of Edinburgh. It grew out of the frustration of a research
group at Edinburgh University trying to work out the similarities and
differences in programs coming from different sources – particularly
Bell Laboratories and University of Michigan (Guttman-Lingoes). The
project was designed to: |
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Collect MDS and related programs in common use or of
particular interest
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rewrite the source-code up to Fortran77 specifications
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replace the common subroutines by numerically efficient versions |
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provide a common instruction set for running programs |
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produce
a utility for producing measures from raw data for input into (any)
multidimensional scaling programs. |
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many years, a mainframe version was widely available, and maintained until
recently by Manchester Information and Associated Services [ http://www.mimas.ac.uk/
]. |
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An
MD-DOS
Version made the programs accessible to the PC user |
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current Windows version was developed by Alan Brier and Tony Coxon and
is now the standard |
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MAC machines [Wolfgang Otto:
wotto@sozpsy.unizh.ch
] |
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