From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 07:55:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18567 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 07:55:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca [207.181.89.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA18559 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 07:54:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taob@tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca) Received: (from taob@localhost) by tor-adm1.nbc.netcom.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25480; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:54:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:54:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao X-Sender: taob@tor-adm1 To: Tom cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Had the shotgun out and pointed at my -current/SMP box... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Tom wrote: > > I don't know where I could find that many shell users. A system here > has 14K accounts, but only about a hundred of them actually use shell. > Where are you finding all these shell users? This was at io.org up until 1996 or so. The customer base, having built up over the past few years, still had a large portion of shell users (maybe 30 to 40% used it on a regular basis). That's obviously not the case these days. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"