On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 18:14, Nick Heppleston wrote:
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 16:49, Dennis Dryden wrote:
Its a bit sad when a University computer science department does not even have any Tux'en (GNU/Linux Box's) when some high schools are giving Linux it a try. Well for now i have Mingw(win32 gcc) and Scite on a zip disk its slow but i can still mess around with my code. Before i started at the UEA i was under the belief that there were some Sun Solaris box'en in one of the lower floors of CMP(the department formerly known as SYS) but if there are i can't find them and there is no mention of them =(.
I got my first taste on Unix and X from those Sun SGI boxes in SYS, can't really comment on whether they were any good but they looked damn sexy ;-)
Since when did they change the name of the school?? SYS is much better than CMP - does that mean they've changed the name from School of Information Systems then too?
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