History
JMP was originally written in 1989 for the Mac. It was later released for Microsoft Windows in 1993 and Linux in 2005. However, Linux support was dropped with the release of JMP 9 in 2010. According to an issue of the JMP newsletter, "The name JMP was chosen partly to convey the idea of a lively product that jumped responsively to the user’s wishes."
Prior to its release, JMP was an acryonym of "John's Macintosh Project" (John Sall is the co-founder of SAS and is the Executive Vice President responsible for the JMP Division). The internal acronym was later converted into the brand name for the product.
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