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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions Date: 11 Apr 1994 20:54:10 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 55 Message-ID: <2ocddi$har@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2njvsh$fna@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <2nq5js$7lp@hecate.umd.edu> <CnsJuF.B69@veda.is> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <CnsJuF.B69@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes: >I remember about a year ago someone mentioning 386bsd being used in Antarctica. >Hopefully it was not an April Fools jest... if that machine would register, it >would be top of the list for some time. I do not remember what it was being >used for, except that it was probably some scientific application. Ask and ye shall recieve. I keep telling everyone I'm a packrat, but no one takes me seriously... maybe this will change their minds! ] From fcom.cc.utah.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!network.ucsd.edu!not-for-mail Wed May 26 13:56:02 MDT 1993 ] Article: 2827 of comp.os.386bsd.questions ] Path: fcom.cc.utah.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!network.ucsd.edu!network.ucsd.edu!not-for-mail ] From: brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones) ] Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions ] Subject: Re: Which is better ? ] Date: 26 May 1993 08:17:00 -0700 ] Organization: Antarctic Support Associates ] Lines: 21 ] Message-ID: <1u01lc$fr7@network.ucsd.edu> ] References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk> <C7LC9D.DG6@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1993May25.212403.14269@cm.cf.ac.uk> ] NNTP-Posting-Host: network.ucsd.edu ] ] In article <1993May25.212403.14269@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: ] >One of the things that does worry me is the total ] >lack of traffic in the 386bsd groups, while I know that there are ] >people out there working on things it seems that there isn't much ] >of a base actually using the stuff we develop. ] ] It might be interesting to look at some of the places that 386bsd and ] NetBSD are being used. I'm sure some of the people and places would be ] interesting and unusual. ] ] The system that I'm currently running NetBSD with XFree on will be ] installed this October at Amundsen Scott South Pole Station, at 90 ] degrees south in Antarctica. Ironically, though we're involved with ] supporting some cutting-edge science down there for NSF, there is not ] much money for purchasing luxuries like computers... I'm looking at ] NetBSD and 386BSD 486 machines as a way of providing general access to ] Unix machines in a place where an astrophysicist might not appreciate ] your hacking on his SPARC that's trying to prove the big bang theory of ] the universe... ] ] Brent ] Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.