Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!nghiem From: nghiem@ut-emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Risc System/6000 Message-ID: <25150@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 27 Feb 90 02:42:41 GMT References: <10307@hoptoad.uucp> <4115@ibmpa.UUCP> <5098@brazos.Rice.edu> <1148@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <1152@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <1398@ks.UUCP> <1162@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <1418@ks.UUCP> <1167@gort.cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: nghiem@emx.UUCP (Alex Nghiem) Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 27 In article <1167@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) writes: >In article <1418@ks.UUCP> drake@ibmarc.uucp (Sam Drake) writes: >> >>It would be unfair for me to comment on exact sizes of things (since I've only >>seen pre-release code, any more exact sizes I might give you would be >>somewhat off). > > That's the temporary answer to my question. Thanks. > Usually, how "off" are the release sizes from the actual sizes? On another issue: Are there any academic programs available for these new machines? How can an academic entity "upgrade" to a new machine with out losing the scarce funds that were invested keeping the old machine up to date? How does one integrate the new and the old in a cluster if the new operating system is not available on the old machine? __________________________________________________________________________ This article is posted for factual information only. Any misrepresentation, if any, is purely unintentional. Any opinion expressed or implicit in these remarks are solely my own. nghiem@emx.utexas.edu !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!nghiem nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!walt!nghiem