[Sussex] Sulking...

[John Crowhurst]

> LOL, you shuold see the computers I'm dealing with at uni, they're old
> RM machines that don't have CD drives, never mind a CD-RW one!  They
> connect over a 10Mb connection to a terminal server cluster on a
> different campus. They are, in a word, pants.

I think I know why they still have them. My college bought some RM Nimbus
machines in 1985, and signed a ten-year agreement on them. They bought the
Nimbus network for them but they were stuck with these 80186 dinosaurs
until the agreement expired in 95!

Of course, they didn't learn from their mistakes and bought 386 computers
from another dodgy supplier (Western Systems) on an equally stupid
contract, which only ended when Western Systems declared themselves
bankrupt.

>>So my question is - what's a purdy UltraSparc III server doing
>>in a place
>>like this, and why isn't it coming to my desk.

You need to transfer the innards into a Dell case :P and put the dell bits
in the 1U case :P

-- 
John