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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: X-terms v. PCs v. Workstations
Message-ID: <540@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 29 Nov 89 10:04:59 GMT
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jdd@db.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:

>ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) writes:

>>jdd@db.toronto.edu (John DiMarco) writes:

[Long discussion deleted]

Our centralised facility did convince the board of our university that
standardisation to DECNET protocols on our Ethernet exclusively was the
right decision.
That DECNET is slowly on it's way out (it is not even standard in Ultrix
I've heard) did not deter anyone.
The decision was reversed in the end. It meant: no Suns, Apollos, VAXes running
BSD, Macs interconnected and so on.

I just strongly object to centralised bureaucracies that think they know better
than the user, however knowledgable the user is. I do not object to a local
group serving a relatively small user community with a minimum of paperwork.
These groups should be as small as possible though.
If I can pay for the hardware and can run it myself why should anyone
have to interfere with this? If not I should go out looking for cooperation
and pay for it.

Ge' Weijers
Ge' Weijers                                    Internet/UUCP: ge@cs.kun.nl
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science,   (uunet.uu.net!cs.kun.nl!ge)
University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1         
6525 ED Nijmegen, the Netherlands              tel. +3180612483 (UTC-2)


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