Thimbles & Care

IBM confirms that Macs are $535 less expensive than PCs

In 2015, IBM let their employees decide – Windows or Mac. “The goal was to deliver a great employee choice program and strive to achieve the best Mac program,” Previn said. An emerging favorite meant the deployment of 30,000 Macs over the course of the year. But that number has grown. With more employees choosing Mac than ever before, the company now has 90,000 deployed (with only five admins supporting them), making it the largest Mac deployment on earth.

(via Daring Fireball)

I remember when UT was the “largest Mac deployment on earth.”

I’ve been converting my UT Forge Subversion repositories to the UT Austin GitHub site. This morning I finished converting the repository for webAgent. This repository has all the source code for webAgent 1 and the C/C++ source code for webAgent 2. (The webAgent 2 run time code is Java now.)

As I was doing the conversion (using reposurgeon) I was thinking that there might not be that much history, since as I recall Subversion didn’t exist yet when I did most of the webAgent coding. But then during the conversion I found a bunch of artifacts from cvs2svn; I had forgotten, but I did use CVS when I was writing it. So this is the second time I’ve converted to a new VCS.

From my personal blog: It’s what they do.