I did my Masters in SYS and the whole department was run on Solaris boxen. The NT boxen were just dumb terminals. Everything went through SAMBA shares onto your Unix account. E-mail was done through telnet onto the server and using Pine. Then there was the room full of the SGI Irix machines. I finished my Masters in 2000 so it's not that long ago.
When I was in the bowels of the department writing up my thesis, many of the PHDs were using Linux (RedHat 6.2 was the flavour of the month then if I recall).
So the question is, where the hell has Tux/Unix gone in 3 years???
Matt
Well SAMBA and email are still running on UNIX (DEC i think) and there is ssh to the DEC UNIX box'en but i want some tux'en in the lab's, i want tabbed browsing and no popup's. Thinking about it the only thing i really miss is a nice console and web browser(in the user agreement we cant install software onto the boxen).
- Dennis Dryden