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Re: [LUG] OT: VMS 30 today

 

On 7 Nov 2007, at 17:57, Rob Beard wrote:

> Well when I was working at the scientific research lab about 5  
> years ago
> they were slowly moving over to Linux (RedHat 9 at the time) as it was
> cheaper to buy a reasonable spec desktop machine and dual boot with
> Windows XP or single boot RedHat than spend out for a Sun workstation.
> They had all sorts of different kit in the place ranging from Windows
> PCs to Macs to Sun workstations to Alphas.
>
>  From what I understand they did have some old kit which would only  
> work
> with Sun workstations but I think gradually things were either moving
> over to Linux, Java or Windows.
>
> Rob

I rather get the impression that's the general way of things. Lots of  
research places,including universities,  ran Unix but now use Linux  
or the W word.(I'm too much of a lady to even write it).

Clare
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