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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3000 comp.os.linux.misc:20910 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge Date: 3 Aug 1994 03:42:46 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <31n3nm$70d@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <1994Jul31.224245.24749@cs.brown.edu> <31hjgn$spj@u.cc.utah.edu> <31mh31$efs@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu In article <31mh31$efs@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) writes: ] all, students will enter the job market before ] long, and when they get in the position to decide what to buy, they ] will want equipment they are familiar with. E.g., students graduating ] from Tromsoe will want HP boxes, someone from Oslo (like me :-) would ] _never_ buy a box running HP-UX, they'd prefer Irix or SunOS 4. By this argument, many of my contemporaries would be demanding PDP-08's running various things, Harris H-800's running VOS, and KL-10's running TOPS-10. I personally would be demanding a SWTP 6800 S100 system and a hand-cranked, home-built paper tape reader. People seldom stick to their first machines; this is simply a lie that Universities tell computer companies to get equipment. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.