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- From: kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
- Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.171352.5982@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu>
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- Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
- References: <1dtssaINN59p@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Nov12.204638.2538@alw.nih.gov> <15474@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:13:52 GMT
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- In article <15474@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
- >>Sun is going after the MIS market and probably couldn't care
- >>less what several thousand engineers, scientists and assorted techies
- >>think.
- >
- >I also suspect fewer "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" than
- >some folks think actually care that much about BSD vs. SV; I suspect
-
- Wrong. The scientists here are very familiar with a BSD system here. I've
- been administrating BSD system (2.9BSD and SunOS) for 8 years.
-
- >many "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" outside the UNIX
- >community would be just as happy running, say, Windows NT, as long as
- >the particular technical applications they wanted to run were available
- >under NT on the platform in question.
-
- Windows NT, you got to be kidding. I want a real computer with real computing
- power so I can run my doppler algorithms on it.
-
- >(Yes, I'm sure you can dig up *individual* exceptions. Please don't
- >bother doing so, unless you can dig up *enough* individual exceptions to
- >show that the bulk of the technical community is truly in love with a
- >more BSDish UNIX, or even with UNIX in general.)
-
- Although I do not represent the options of the people at the National Severe
- Storms Laboratory, as system manager/adminstrator, I have a general idea
- what they like and dislike.
-
- Kevin W. Thomas
- National Severe Storms Laboratory
- Norman, Oklahoma
-