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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!rhawkins From: rhawkins@iastate.edu (Rick Hawkins) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Date: 19 Sep 1995 23:36:34 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <43nk62$d8@news.iastate.edu> References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> <MICHAELV.95Sep17014327@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <EJE.95Sep18092005@eje.xyplex.com> <MICHAELV.95Sep18221451@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pv21f2.vincent.iastate.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:61350 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6398 In article <MICHAELV.95Sep18221451@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >Iowa State has roughly 600 Ultrix DECstations which are used by mostly >Unix novices. Ultrix is BSD Unix. NetBSD is BSD. FreeBSD is BSD. >You work out the correlation. >I didn't mean to imply Linux was bad. But you can't convince me that >anything is more like a BSD-based Unix (Ultrix) than another BSD. Our newer machines are alpha's runing OSF/1 V3.2A (rev. 17). I think the switch was about two years ago. Of the machines with enough power to worry about, at least in our departments, the alphas massively outnumber the 5000's runing ultrix. Of the public & grad student machines in our department , there are 7 alphas, 2 5000's. There are also 7 assorted. 2000's & 3000's, but they don't count :) Of the alphas, 3 are 64M models, which, under our typical usage, have enough memory to support 2-3 users before paging becomes an issue. These xterms would be used as the 2d/3d user for these machines (or the rest when the public lab is closed; grad student room is 24 hr). -- R E HAWKINS rhawkins@iastate.edu