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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 14:29:46 JST Sick Sun

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   @miscbrains @bot @pwm HP donated like a hundred machines to my university so our computer labs were all HP-UX (and a few SGI O2s.)
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     @sun@shitposter.world @bot@seal.cafe @pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org Ahh, that tracks. We had mostly Next machines to showoff. I'm sure there were SGI machines around, but not in any of the classes i took. Random computer labs were mostly mac g3s :( Still marathon lan parties were pretty amusing. Svr4 nix machines for shell and email and usenet!
     But also https://www.evl.uic.edu/pape/CAVE/ Got to poke at that one day from a friend who had access to the uiuc run of it.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 14:42:54 JST Sick Sun

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     @miscbrains @bot @pwm There were a couple labs that had Macs but they were Motorola CPUs. You could run Java on the macs or on hp-ux but only codewarrior IDE ran on the macs. But the macs crashed all the time (it just werks!) so I coded in vi on HP-UX for assignments.
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     Miscbrains:beastie::segasaturn: (miscbrains@misc.brainsoap.net)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 17:57:39 JST Miscbrains:beastie::segasaturn:

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     @sun@shitposter.world @bot@seal.cafe @pwm@pl.absolutelyproprietary.org Lol was that the same time frame Carmack was coding on the macs for doom3? I think there were still some 68k macs around at the time, and the macOS classic to X transition was an interesting time to say the least. But i don't recall them abnormally crashy. Brain memory is pretty lossy though.

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