Yeah, and the lovely (if old) IBM RS/6000's they had AIX running/crawling
on got thrown (forcefully) into a skip. Probably threw them out when they
couldn't install NT on them. IMHO, I think this beancounting stuff should
be left to the Beancounters. The argument "You could be writing a
financial app and it would be very useful" doesn't hold, since you could
just as likely be writing a browser and need some decent knowledge of
sockets, an OS and need a decent knowledge of hardware, an embedded system
and a decent knowledge of, well, embedded systems...
-Brian
brian at devfoo.net
"kill -9 needs no justification"
--PFY
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> I visited my old college, CIT (the Cork one!), and was depressed by all
> the NT running PCs in the labs. They used to have an AIX lab but that's
> been replaced by shiny boxes with "Intel Inside". That's what worries
> me.
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