On Wednesday 09 January 2008 16:23:23 Herbert Graf wrote: > I remember when I started university most of the "serious" machines were > Irix based (machines used by for most Engineering course labs). By my > 4th year about half those machines had been replaced with Linux based > machines. I recently visited my university, I didn't see any more Irix > based machines, they were all running Linux. The university where I am at the moment, we've dumped HP-UX for Linux. We kept the only HP-UX machine running up until last year, to run EDA tools. Now, I'm having to re-tool things so that we can run things on Linux. Due to the nature of these tools, it's been not been a smooth ride. Cheers. -- with metta, Shawn Tan Aeste Works (M) Sdn Bhd - Engineering Elegance http://www.aeste.net -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist