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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
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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