[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[Dave McGuire]

On July 12, Roger Walkup wrote:
> Apple did the samething in the k-12 schools.  From my personal experience as
> an *old* (40) student and a part time worker in one of the tech offices at
> University of Wisconsin-Superior, the people who run the labs, maintain the
> network, and take care of the staff/faculty offices are pretty ignorent about
> unix of any sort and, in some cases, little better than power users of MS
> software (eg. they know how to install a custom version of Office 2000).  The
> computer science dept has bought *an* Ultra 10 which will be used as a server
> for compsci classes next year.  Most of the comp sci profs are big fans of
> NeXT, but that's dead.  A recent grad donated 4-5  classics, but they're not
> all running yet.  Looking around on the internet, I don't see much difference
> in other UW campuses.  It's a wasteland.

  Wow.  Is it possible that we are the last generation of people that
will know how computers actually *work*?  No computer *science* will
be learnt on Windows boxes, in my opinion.

         -Dave McGuire