Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 11:33:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: chris/reman <z2172268@student.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <199808130203.LAA21212@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 00:41:21 %2B1000." <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au>
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> Thats funny, because the uni. where I am at (UNSW, Sydney) the comp sci labs > originally running (and still is) a mix of decstations and labtams running Su > when they redid their workstations upstairs they bought p200's and stuck x86 > SunOS on them, weird eh. Personally I would have saved the money bought chea > workstations and stuck linux or freebsd on them, but what can you do when you > only an undergrad, and your uni purchasing scheme is up $h*t creek. > Then again I spose they were going for tried and tested, (insert remark about > tired and bested here) At least when your uni decided to upgrade to SOlaris they bought new hardware! When I was at uni (a few months ago) they where running Solaris on Sparc 10's :( They got 2 E450's just as I left tho.. bastards ;) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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