Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!bofh.dot!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!scramble.lm.com!godot.cc.duq.edu!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ag5c+
From: "A. Forest Godfrey" <ag5c+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.acorn.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.machten,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 00:33:23 -0400
Organization: Freshman, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 31
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4laJuHe00iWYEEO38r@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <---0405961742330001@dyna-37.net7b.io.org> <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> <4mr8um$qnb@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu> <olYLpsm00iVEQJDsU5@andrew.cmu.edu>
<DrEMG1.BC3@medar.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: po9.andrew.cmu.edu
In-Reply-To: <DrEMG1.BC3@medar.com>
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:49325 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:128297 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:24583 comp.os.os2.advocacy:202144 comp.sys.acorn.advocacy:9024 comp.sys.mac.advocacy:106283 comp.sys.next.advocacy:35335 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:3567 comp.unix.advocacy:20473 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19385 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1055 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3611 comp.unix.machten:2526 comp.unix.solaris:68900 comp.os.msdos.misc:55556
Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.machten: 14-May-96 Re: The PC Mac Holy
war by James Seymour@medar.com
> Forest, if you're still with us: is there anything you can say,
> even if it's just a "gut feel", about usage patterns amongst these
> machines?
>
Well, I'm still here. "Gut feel" on usage: LOTS on all platforms.
I have yet to walk into a cluster that is empty. Our printers print
around 20,000 pages a week (except the LaserWriters...). I would say
that the Unix labs get the most stress, since almost all the electrical
engineering and computer science classes have assignments that use them.
Next is probably the PC's, because we have so few and also Command and
Conquer runs on them... Because we have so many Macs and also because
people have them in their rooms, they get lighter usuage, but like I
said "light" is only relative (example - in my cluster today there was a
line of people waiting at 8 at night to use machines. Only half of the
student body is still on campus...). Usuage is about the same on all
platforms. Hope this answers your question.
Lastly, like Mr. Seymour said, I make no claims about the validity
of my conclusions from the statistics I gave - stats is not my field of
specialty...
-- Forest
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
| Forest Godfrey ag5c+@andrew.cmu.edu|
| Penguins in '96! fgodfrey@nyx.cs.du.edu|
| Go Badgers! Internet: Use it. Don't abuse it! |
| Vote Democrat! Your share of the national debt>$17,000 |
| Save the planet! We don't have a backup copy |
+---------------------------------------------------------------+