24 Nov
2025
24 Nov
'25
5:33 a.m.
On 2025-11-24 6:11 a.m., Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
I was part of organizing the first (and next-to-last)
USSR UNIX
conference. One funny part was a bunch of Russian academics arguing
over how to best port UNIX to one of their mainframes. Bill Joy
was also attending, and Sun Microsystems donated something like
3000 slightly obsolete Sun workstations to the Russian universities.
He walked up to the microphone and commented "you realize those
workstations run circles around that mainframe...".
I am not impressed with Sun.
JAVA runs only on Sun or windows hardware, the last time I looked.
(1995?)
Julf
I guess Unix is important, if that is your job.
I used a IBM-1130 in 1982, here in CANADA. That computer any student
could use if it was free. The next year they got a VAX. Only computer
science students could use that.
Ben.