[195] in Athena User Interface
Re: Thoughts on quickstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Tue Jun 20 18:03:40 2000
To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 20 Jun 2000 18:03:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: Brad Thompson's message of "Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:53:52 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hn1kg103s.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Rumor has it that the quickstations are getting replaced with linux
> machines. If this rumor is true, then we don't need to spend time writing
> the fake-login stuff, because logins will be fast enough. Anyone with
> their ear closer to the ground know what kinds of stampeding bison are
> approaching us?
This rumor is true, but I don't know exactly what the schedule is.
There is a desire to buy Linux quickstations ASAP, but that doesn't
necessarily translate to retiring old suns.
