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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (Edward Michael Smith)
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Subject: Re: Teaching UNIX
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Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 14:43:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 14:43:51 1984
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>  
> > Also, due to the lack of funding, most schools cannot run out and buy
> > a new computer system at whim. Most computers that support Un*x are
> > for the most part small and aren't able to support the load that the
> > average university wants to put on them. Try running some extremely
> > large number crunching problems on a Un*x machine sometime. I'll take
> > a large CDC, Cray, or IBM any day. See what happens when more than
> > 25 people want to use EMACS at once.

Don't forget that AMDAHL has a UNIX (tm) port named UTS that runs on those
nice big IBM style machines!!  (UNIX is a trade mark of Bell Labs...)
> 
> I read this as saying that a "large CDC, Cray, or IBM" machine can support
> a large number of users because it prevents anyone from using one of the
> more powerful tools of modern computer science.  Quite true.

Not true!  See above comment...
> 
> the resources for this.  The computing centre now has a VAX running
> UNIX, though, so this situation may change.  (Now if only they'd run
> UTS on the IBM processors...)

Yes, yes!!!

(Please forgive the 'commercial' aspect of this posting.  I do work for
AMDAHL, but I am also a part time instructor at a J.C.  This posting is
made in the spirit of an instructor thinking of the new students who
could be reached *without buying new hardware*)
-- 

E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily those of anyone.
(How can a company have an opinion, anyway...)