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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!lerc.nasa.gov!newsread.lerc.nasa.gov!mckim From: mckim@flick.lerc.nasa.gov (Jim McKim) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions Date: 05 Apr 1994 14:16:43 GMT Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center Lines: 22 Message-ID: <MCKIM.94Apr5101643@flick.lerc.nasa.gov> References: <2nfrmq$siv@aun.uninett.no> <2njvsh$fna@dearg.cuillin.org.uk> <2nq5js$7lp@hecate.umd.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: flick.lerc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: mark@elea.umd.edu's message of 4 Apr 1994 22:50:36 GMT In article <2nq5js$7lp@hecate.umd.edu> mark@elea.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: 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. Wow! Small world. I was down there at the HOSC too, plotting all sorts of exciting acceleration data from the on board SAMS (Space Acceleration Measurement System) units. This isn't yet on the shuttle either, but the next version of SAMS is in the early design stage and I am evaluating the *BSDs for parts of it. It will be part of the space station. It will be networked, likely TCP/IP. We don't know what the domain names will be; I imagine that will be _the_ burning question sometime in the future. - Jim