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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions Message-ID: <hastyCnt3t6.D77@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2njvsh$fna@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <2nq5js$7lp@hecate.umd.edu> <MCKIM.94Apr5101643@flick.lerc.nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 22:00:41 GMT Lines: 36 In article <MCKIM.94Apr5101643@flick.lerc.nasa.gov> mckim@flick.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim) writes: >In article <2nq5js$7lp@hecate.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: > > I don't think it's on the space shuttle, but I came *really* *close* > to using Netbsd on a ground support computer for the USMP2 flight > in early March. It got DOS installed on it two days before the > launch so that it would be exactly like the four DOS-based X > terminals we were using. > > I actually have a user running Netbsd for the purpose of post-flight > data analysis. > >Wow! Small world. I was down there at the HOSC too, plotting all >sorts of exciting acceleration data from the on board SAMS (Space >Acceleration Measurement System) units. > >This isn't yet on the shuttle either, but the next version of SAMS is >in the early design stage and I am evaluating the *BSDs for parts of >it. It will be part of the space station. It will be networked, >likely TCP/IP. We don't know what the domain names will be; I imagine >that will be _the_ burning question sometime in the future. > >- Jim Hmm.. would you provide vat and nv broadcasts 8) Space Shuttle calling NetBSD team we have a simple question.... Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X