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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:3033 comp.os.linux.misc:21113 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.ossi.com!news.fujitsu.com!amdahl!netcomsv!netcom.com!netcom4!ceb From: ceb@netcom4.netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Subject: Re: Usefulness of BSD/Linux Source Knowledge In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of 3 Aug 1994 03:42:46 GMT Message-ID: <CEB.94Aug3111327@netcom4.netcom.com> Sender: ceb@netcom.com (Ch. Buckley) Organization: Mauto, Palo Alto References: <1994Jul31.224245.24749@cs.brown.edu> <31hjgn$spj@u.cc.utah.edu> <31mh31$efs@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> <31n3nm$70d@u.cc.utah.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 18:13:26 GMT Lines: 23 In article <31n3nm$70d@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: In article <31mh31$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-). I'm so glad you wrote that -- when I say such things, people just accuse me of being cynical, paranoid, or something else negative. --