Andrew Rodger wrote the following: > There was a - perhaps apocryphal - story going about a few years ago > which claimed the Pentagon had changed its servers to Macs for this > reason. It would be interesting to know if it is true. I think it was > leaked around the time of the release of the first G4s.
Can't speak for Pentagon of course but the US agencies do use quite a few Macs...At a fairly recent Conference in the US I was across from the NASA stands and I nearly fell over when I saw them set up with G3 and G4 PowerBooks...Didn't see a single PC at their stand the entire time! Besides, with OS X, the scientific community and security fields have a better platform than before and it would make sense that the continuous and open information about ports from other *nix platforms to X would seem to be in agreement...especially with issues such as pgp or encryption software, etc... only my .02 Richard -- -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
