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

[Cyrus M. Reed]

My university actually had a full lab of Ultra 10's (~25) up until about 6
months ago.  Unfortunately though a series of events it was, shall we say,
"assimilated" before it really even got off the ground.  It sounded like
they had some good plans for it (GIS software and a few other things), but
I think the "suits" either got "we love NT syndrome", or "students
shouldn't be touching machines that expensive", or even "it doesn't run
Word even, so it must not be good". It was a real shame, the lab was quiet
and never had any lines; if only because not too many people knew how to
use it (but since I did, it was nice :).  I could have used it for some
nice Physics simulations or something....  <sigh>

-Cyrus

On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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
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