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From: bishop@milton.u.washington.edu (John Bishop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT on Campus -- How's NeXT really doing at your school?
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.015746.27889@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 91 01:57:46 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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Some of you may have seen the Campus profile on University of
Washington in the most recent "NeXT on Campus".  There's an interview
with Garret Odell about a mathematical models in biology course which
he teaches here, which I took.  There were about 25 of us, mostly
graduate students, and we used the general access next lab for the
course.  This lab has 10 '030's running off 2 servers, and is VERY
slow (none of the cubes have hard disks, and only 8mb ram per cube).
  Nonetheless, we were blown
away by what we could do on the nexts, especially with Mathematica. It
was a very successful class.  The Next lab, as far as I can tell, gets
very heavy use, and is surrounded by older terminals which get much
lighter use.  In spite of this, the U hasn't seen its way to improving
this lab.
	At leas two of us from the course have bought our own nexts so far,
but the big coup is that the zoology dept has decided to set up its
own next lab, with (I'm a little fuzzy on these numbers) something
like 8 stations and 2 cubes, plus 2 cubes acting as servers.  In
addition 4 or 5 faculty will get a station on their desks.  As I
recall, all of these will have lots of memory big disks, and the cubes
will have ND's. It ought to be some lab.   

John Bishop
Department of Botany