Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cvl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!hsu From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: survey Message-ID: <113@cvl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 23:10:12 EST Article-I.D.: cvl.113 Posted: Fri Mar 1 23:10:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 04:49:50 EST References: <435@jett.UUCP> Organization: Computer Vision Lab, U. of Maryland, College Park Lines: 18 > This is a Serious Servey. How many Sperry Univacs are still out there > being used for practical purposes. I am going to the University of > Alabama in Hunstville, which acclaims it has one of the best CS programs > in the country, and its main computer is a Univac. I am still wandering > if I will have to write my programs on punch cards.... > > - {ihnp4,akgua,cbosgd,nsc}!jett!linwood Hmmm...funny, here at the University of Maryland, College Park, we claim (note that we also take english here) to have one of the best CS programs in the country too, and although our most used machine is an 1100/82 (UMD2.ARPA) it is now getting competition from a set of IBM's. We also maintain an 1100/71 for (research/other) purposes. Rumor has it that we are slated for an 1100/90 too, when Sperry finishes it. And I thought WE were the only people left with an 1100 under EXEC-8! -dave hsu