Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!diamond!ihaka From: ihaka@diamond.tmc.edu (Ross Ihaka) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy Message-ID: <14920@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 6 Oct 89 13:40:42 GMT References: <20226@usc.edu> <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <1858@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <17090@rpp386.cactus.org> <1989Oct2.205642.5715@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1662@muffi <7604@bunny Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: ihaka@diamond.UUCP (Ross Ihaka) Organization: MIT Statistics Center Lines: 15 In article <7604@bunny.GTE.COM> abh0@GTE.COM (Andrew Hudson) writes: |Until the last year or two the Ivy schools have been predominantly |Non-UNIX oriented. Schools with lots of money to spend traditionally |spent it on big hardware (read IBM/Honeywell/Cyber/Univac/Pr1me) whereas |spendthrifty schools purchased PDP's and VAXen. My experience as a faculty member at Yale was that that particular big money school had rooms full of Apollo machines and Vaxen, almost none of them running Unix. The vice-provost I lobbied about changing things told me that there was no demand for Unix and he couldn't see why I was interested in it. It didn't seem to be a question of bucks. Things do seem to have changed in CS, they have replaced their Apollos with Suns. The rest of the university is probably still stuck with PCs, VMS and VM. Ross