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When I was at the University of Birmingham in the 90's there was an entire lab of SparcStations that was always overly busy ... but I always preferred the much
by philjohn 5y ago
When I was at the University of Birmingham in the 90's there was an entire lab of SparcStations that was always overly busy ... but I always preferred the much quieter lab that was hardly used which was replete with DEC Alpha machines - they ran rings around the Sparc's that the university had.
- wlonkly 5y agoI also went to university in the 1990s, at McGill in Montreal, and we also had labs full of different architectures/vendors' workstations -- Sparc lab, Alpha lab, NeXT lab, RS6000 lab (with AIX), and a brand-new Linux lab, but that clearly that wasn't going to go anywhere. I don't miss having to think about architecture and different Unix variants all the time, but I do miss the variety.