Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!bikini!bb From: bb@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Dream System (sort of) Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 90 08:34:53 GMT References: <1990Dec14.095519.14818@hellgate.utah.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Organization: /cis/lightning0/bb/.organization Lines: 34 In-reply-to: mjb%hoosier.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu's message of 14 Dec 90 16:55:19 GMT In article <1990Dec14.095519.14818@hellgate.utah.edu> mjb%hoosier.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Mark Bradakis) writes: > We have a student lab with 40 machines in it. Half are HP 400t > machines and half are Suns, a mix of Sparcstation 1 and SLCs or some > such. Usually when I go over there and the lab is only half used, > nearly all the students are sitting in front of the Hewlett Packard > machines, only one or two are using Suns. Remember that TV commercial > where the two people are asking "Which is the best computer?" It is > indeed the one that people use. Well, this about a content-free posting as you can get. Not a word about features, performance, reliability, or price; just sitting there with a big grin and quoting television ads at me. At this rate I should be using Windows, because that's what Microsoft reccommends. Here are some easy questions to ask, that might clarify the situation: Are the HP's color and the Sun's mono (SLC's are)? Is there software used locally that only runs on the HP's? Is the local support and system defaults concentrated on the HP's? "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!mathlab.math.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu -- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Bartholomew UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!mathlab.math.ufl.edu!bb University of Florida Internet: bb@math.ufl.edu