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On Fri, 26 Sep 97 11:46:53 HST, David Ross wrote: >> My best friend is going to the California Polytechnic College in Pomona, and >> they still use VAXes as well as Macs and Suns primarily. > >Probably most university networks are build around unix boxes - I'm typing this >on a Sparc 5 myself. However, I neither maintain nor buy software for this machine >personally. We were talking about the TP560, what operating systems do a substantial >number of people run on it, and whether location of any of these people at universities is relevant >to the latter question. As an academic I can get deals on software in Mac and Windows versions; >while this wouldn't *stop* me from putting Linux on my machine, it certainly wouldn't >encourage me either. > >- David > > Well, I could get a great deal on OS/2 - $89 for the academic edition, which is no different than the regular one. And they do have support for the 560. Paul