[KLUG Advocacy] Re: Akron, Buffalo run Windows, ACM = MAC (rejumbled), IEEE could kick the ACM's butt -- WAS: butt whipping ...

[Bruce Smith]

It's sure nice to have this thread back on topic now!!!  ;->

> > I've heard that some MAC college football teams use really sucky OS's.
> > And the teams that lose use suckier OS's than the teams that win.
> > And sometimes teams switch OS's from one week to another!
> > What's been your experience with that?
> 
> Well at UCF, we were the largest Novell installation of the '80s.  One of the
> guys in our LUG was the president of the international Novell User association
> (Hale Pringle, ED -- if anyone was big into Novell).

Novell sucks!   :-)

> Our research park, one of the largest in the nation, is home to the greatest
> concentration of military simulation and training companies of any campus.  So
> we definitely don't suck, because we have nothing but Irix, Solaris and Linux
> (or custom platforms, usually UNIX-based).

Big improvement!

> > You could let us know which teams are using the suckiest OS's each
> > week, and how often they've used sucky OS's in the past.
> 
> Well, WMU is probably MacOS X -- pretty on the outside (because their uniforms
> kinda look like UCF's), but limited.  Not like Akron or Buffalo, who are clearly
> Microsoft-based and belong back in I-AA.

I donno.  We'll have to let a WMU grad answer that one.

> Now onto MAC addresses that don't suck ... another IEEE creation ...
>    UC:Fs:ma:ck:WM

Is that TCP/IP-v8 or something?  :-)

  - BS