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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions
Date: 11 Apr 1994 20:54:10 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <CnsJuF.B69@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:
>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.

Ask and ye shall recieve.

I keep telling everyone I'm a packrat, but no one takes me seriously...

maybe this will change their minds!


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] From: brent@network.ucsd.edu (Brent Jones)
] Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
] Subject: Re: Which is better ?
] Date: 26 May 1993 08:17:00 -0700
] Organization: Antarctic Support Associates
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] Message-ID: <1u01lc$fr7@network.ucsd.edu>
] References: <1993May25.095207.25469@uxmail.ust.hk> <C7LC9D.DG6@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> <1993May25.212403.14269@cm.cf.ac.uk>
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] In article <1993May25.212403.14269@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes:
] >One of the things that does worry me is the total
] >lack of traffic in the 386bsd groups, while I know that there are
] >people out there working on things it seems that there isn't much
] >of a base actually using the stuff we develop.
] 
] It might be interesting to look at some of the places that 386bsd and
] NetBSD are being used.  I'm sure some of the people and places would be
] interesting and unusual.
] 
] The system that I'm currently running NetBSD with XFree on will be
] installed this October at Amundsen Scott South Pole Station, at 90
] degrees south in Antarctica.  Ironically, though we're involved with
] supporting some cutting-edge science down there for NSF, there is not
] much money for purchasing luxuries like computers...  I'm looking at
] NetBSD and 386BSD 486 machines as a way of providing general access to
] Unix machines in a place where an astrophysicist might not appreciate
] your hacking on his SPARC that's trying to prove the big bang theory of
] the universe...
] 
] Brent
] 


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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