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Re: [Plug] Pro Unix Colleges
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All I can say is Thank you. My wife just transferred to Drexel and I found
the statements against them a bit ridiculous.
Doug Weber
(No relation)
----- Original Message -----
From: <umweber@mcs.drexel.edu>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Plug] Pro Unix Colleges
> Um, well, they've actually switched over to Windows machines as being
> the "official" computers now instead of Macs, maybe 2 years ago you had to
> buy a mac. And most of the korman center has new NT machines, every day I
> see a big truck stop by and drop off DELL boxes. Everyone in the school
> gets a shell account, on what I believe is a Sun Enterprise 3000, and also
> they have some other big machine for the mail server. If you get into the
> math/compsci department, you get another shell account, on only a Sun
> Enterprise 450, but there are usually at max 30 people on there during the
> day, and it's got 4 Ultrasparc II processors, and about a gig of ram,
> running Solaris 7 (Sorry I had to brag here I was really excited when they
> upgraded that machine), oh yeah, no quota on this box either :) and the
> mcs lab has more Sun Ultra 1's than the DELL's running NT and the old macs
> combined. (Also I think there are some new Ultra 5's and DELL's waiting to
> be set up in the closet, as of last term) Though alot of the school is
> still on macs unfortunately because in 1981 when they decided to make
> everyone get a computer, apple was really the only option.
> As for the classes, there is actually really only one UNIX class,
> in the CS dept which is a tad too easy for people who already know unix,
> but at least I picked up some stuff I wouldn't have learned on my own
> (sed, awk, scheme, tex, etc) And the textbook for the class was ORA's Unix
> in a nutshell. (And a C/C++ reference book)
> Most of the other CS classes are not geared towards unix, or mac, or
> windows. Since you have a choice of windows or mac "officially" they
> can't gear it towards one or the other, so you actually learn things that
> will work on all platforms. Most profs don't care wether you use
> Metrowerks CodeWarrior (The recommended compiler because it works on both
> Windows and Mac), MS Visual C++, or gcc/g++, as long as your assignments
> actually compile on the compiler you've specified. Many of the profs, and
> students use unix/linux on their personal machines, and they only thing
> you ever needed mac or windows for before was to use Filemaker Pro
> software for the coops, but that's been moved over to a web based
> interface, so nothing really requires you to have Windows or MacOS
> anymore.
> Now, I'm not saying Drexel is the place you wanna go to, I just had to
> defend my school because your statements below are horribly untrue.
>
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Nick R wrote:
>
> > Ack! You've gotta be kidding! They're still using Apple servers & like
1/2
> > of Korman Ctr is still Macs. That's even worse than M$ OSes.
> >
> > -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
> >
> >
> > If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
> > 99. Any data file of crucial importance will be padded to 1.45Mb in
size.
> > -- Peter's Evil Overlord List,
> > http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
> >
> >
> > >From: "Brent R. Matzelle" <bmatzelle@yahoo.com>
> > >Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > >To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > >Subject: Re: [Plug] Pro Unix Colleges
> > >Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 20:42:50 -0400
> > >
> > >I believe that Drexel U. might fit your bill.
> > >
> > >On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> > > > I'm looking into a college to go to. I want a place that has good
> > >Linux/Unix
> > > > courses and good computer courses in general. Also a healthy
nerd/geek
> > > > population hopefully w/ a little freak/goth thrown in for good
measure.
> > >So
> > > > can anybody recommend some places or at least a good idea on how to
find
> > > > out? I can just imagine the clueless puzzled look on some admissions
> > > > person's face as I ask about Linux use. heheh
> > > >
> > > > -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
> > > > 37. If my trusted lieutenant tells me my Legions of Terror are
losing a
> > > > battle, I will believe him. After all, he's my trusted lieutenant.
> > > > -- Peter's Evil Overlord List,
> > > > http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
> > > >
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> > >
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