OT: Purdue/PSU, was [rescue] ss2 under load

[Kevin Loch]

Dan Sikorski wrote:
> odd. i'm at purdue, and well...  personally, i feel cheated in my
> education.  I came here to learn.  it took me a year to figure out i was

Each school has it's own platform bigotry.  It sometimes has alot to do
with
which company supports the school.  Radford was as SUN school when I was
there.
I don't think SUN had anything to do with it, but there were some
clueful professors
in the CS dept.  Illinois State was totally an IBM school.  It was so
sad.  Walking
down the halls in the CS building and seeing all the professors with
their PS/2's
with 10" monitors running OS/2.  Compare that to Radford, where even
math professors
had ELC's on their desk.  I did get to learn AIX there though, which was
a plus
since I use that alot today at work.  It turns out that ISU is in the
same town as
State Farm Insurance, who had apparently supported the CS dept.  I guess
they were
interested in having graduates that knew the hardware they used :) 
Virginia Tech
was kind of an IBM school, but much more independent.

It's alot like the real world, people work with what they know, or what
they
can get their hands on.

KL