At 10:20 AM 2/3/00 +0900, Ken Nakata wrote:
>Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 18:14:51 -0600 (CST)
>>  Dave Huang <khym@bga.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  > I never used Sequents myself, but knew people who did... I always
>>  > thought they were neat though :) All those processors :)
>> 
>> Don't get me wrong... I *really like* the old Sequent hardware :-)
>
>Yeah, they are well built nice pieces of hardware.  We still use them
>internally for various purposes.  It's a pity the latest OS (ptx 4.5)
>doesn't support the 2000's any more...
>
>> ...they're just a little painful with 50 CS 201 students debugging
>> their first memory leaks... :-)
>
>Well, I bet it was much better than a Sparc 1000 with 30 or so CS 416
>students debugging their first shells most of which were essentially
>nothing but fork bombs.  Of course, I did my assignments on my SE/30
>running NetBSD/mac68k later ported it to Solaris 2... ;^)
>
>Okay, okay, I'll shut the *#@$ up and go back to work... :-)
>
>Ken

If we are dredging up memories from school, I remember when 25 people sitting
in front of Mac II's running MacX in my integrated circuits design class all
logged into the department Sparcstation 2 and tried to load Magic at the same
time.  That thing paged its way to an quick death.