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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!isgate!veda.is!adam From: adam@veda.is (Adam David) Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions References: <2nfrmq$siv@aun.uninett.no> <2njvsh$fna@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <2nq5js$7lp@hecate.umd.edu> Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 14:49:09 GMT Message-ID: <CnsJuF.B69@veda.is> Lines: 23 mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: >In article <2njvsh$fna@dearg.cuillin.org.uk>, >Guy Dawson <guy@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> wrote: >>xx Unknown - must be the Space Shuttle! :-) >I don't think it's on the space shuttle, but I came *really* *close* >to using Netbsd on a ground support computer for the USMP2 flight >in early March. It got DOS installed on it two days before the >launch so that it would be exactly like the four DOS-based X >terminals we were using. >I actually have a user running Netbsd for the purpose of post-flight >data analysis. I remember about a year ago someone mentioning 386bsd being used in Antarctica. Hopefully it was not an April Fools jest... if that machine would register, it would be top of the list for some time. I do not remember what it was being used for, except that it was probably some scientific application. -- adam@veda.is