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- From: holerbch@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Uwe Hollerbach)
- Subject: Re: MONEY + Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.221010.2896@Princeton.EDU>
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- References: <1992Dec17.195753.29891@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu> <PK.92Dec18161601@talitiainen.cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:10:10 GMT
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- In article <PK.92Dec18161601@talitiainen.cs.tut.fi> pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec17.232925.6334@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes:
- > One of my fears is that Linux is really a hackers' tool. I use UNIX as
- > a programming environment for linguistic research, using mostly C and
- > Icon. I really don't care about the internals of the OS, except insofar
- > as they directly affect my research. I'm not looking to have any fears
- > assuaged. I'm curious, though, what the "grand plan" is for Linux. Is
- > it supposed to end up replacing UNIX/386, or is it more like a really
- > neat Minix for people who have the time to fool with it?
- >
- >I can supply at least one data point of Linux being used for something
- >else besides hacking the kernel. My wife used it for producing a large
- >number of graphs of measurement data (don't ask me about the data!)
- >for her Master's thesis in Plastics engineering. I wrote some
- >awk/gnuplot scripts that she then used for generating PostScript. If
- >there is a free Icon system available, you could no doubt use Linux
- >for your research. I am not that much into kernel hacking myself, but
- >I am very pleased that I can get the familiar X/Emacs/Scheme
- >environment for free at home.
- >
- >So at least for me Linux offers a familiar environment in which I
- >can do things that are of interest to me.
- >--
- >Pertti Kellom\"aki (TeX format) # These opinions are mine,
- > Tampere Univ. of TeXnology # ALL MINE !
- > Software Systems Lab # (but go ahead and use them, if you like)
- >
- >
-
-
- Well, I too have another datapoint. I am now in the late stages of writing a
- significant (at least I think so) numerical program. When I found
- Linux, some weeks ago, I was very pleased to be able to use
- essentially the same tools I was using at work, but at home, and so I
- have done a significant fraction of the work at home. The computations
- are of course a lot slower on a 386sx/16+387 than on an Iris 4D/380,
- but I can't type any faster on the one than on the other... and for
- small test runs the speed difference doesn't matter that much, so I'm
- happy. Thanks, all!
- --
- Uwe Hollerbach uh@acm.princeton.edu or uh@alumni.caltech.edu
- "In His infinite mercy, Allah does not subtract from one's alloted span those
- hours which are spent in contemplation of net.news. All praise be to Allah."
- -- an obscure commentator on the early work of Al-Khowariszmi
-