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From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber)
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Subject: Re: Commodore & Universities
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Date: 27 Jul 90 21:59:16 GMT
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In article <MILLERJV.90Jul27164515@rigel.crd.ge.com> <millerjv@crd.ge.com> (Jimmy Miller) writes:
>In article <46200106@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>   From: ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>
>   to on the whole campus. Faculty use the machines they used as students (be
>   it Macs or IBMs) and are only looking to move up to Suns or SGIs. You will
>   have a hard time selling them a different machine that does not offer a 
>   significant increase in computing power.
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>I don't know about your professors, but almost all of mine had finished  school
>before IBMs, Macs, and Amigas saw the light of day.  If they wanted to use
>the computers they used as students,  we'd still be using punch-cards.:):):)
>
	OK, OK :-)  My point was: I think most faculty members are already 
	comfortable with the system they have, and are not likely to change
>
>If you really want to get Amigas into hi-tech colleges (and maybe colleges in 
>general), you are going to need virtual memory and a memory protection scheme.

	I agree there is probably no way any Amiga system is going to 
	replace medium to high-end workstations. However, there are a lot
	of PCs (in the generic sense) sitting on people's desks that get
	used for word processing, reading mail, writing code for use on
	mainframes, running small programs, testing code fragments, 
	plotting data, communicating w/ mainframs, etc. This would seem
	to be a good place to introduce the Amiga into the edu. market.
	Stress how you can do some number crunching, print files and login
	to a mainframe efficiently with the Amiga's multitasking. 
	This would give the Amiga a foothold into the edu. market.
	Then as the Amiga evolves, these people may move up with it.

	That is how it works with Macs around here. People started with
	Mac Pluses, got used to them, then moved up to the SE, IIx, IIci,
	and IIfx, all the while keeping software compatibility.

	My original point was that it will be difficult to get
	a faculty member, who has invested time and money in such a system
	to switch to an Amiga.