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From: jreuter@cincy.UUCP (Jim Reuter)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Scheduling and hardware
Message-ID: <1182@cincy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-May-84 20:52:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 20:52:41 1984
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Organization: U. of Cincinnati ECE
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Class scheduling at the University of Cincinnati is also done
completely by computer, though people get closed out of classes
somewhat frequently because the idiots who prepare class sizes and
such don't always seems to understand continuation courses and
college required courses.

In comparison to the article from osu-dbs!paul, our "campus
computer" is also an Amdahl 470 which becomes completely overloaded
at the end of every quarter (two hour turnaround for the fast job
classes).  It is also used for the university DP needs, which is
more than a full load.  Until recently, that's all there was.  They
recently bought two VAX 750's for interactive use by students.  They
removed the majority of the card punching and sorting equipment less
than two years ago.  The engineering college also bought a 750. 
(Too bad they all run VMS).  The only Unix machines are the two in
Electrical Eng. (this is one), one in Mechanical Eng., (all of these
are PDP-11's), and a Pixel 68000 in Classics, all bought from grant
funding with no university support.

Now the Comp. Center wants to buy another big IBM batch beast to
meet their 'future needs'.  The Comp. Center staff is rather
incompetent, usually not capable of getting a job with the local
businesses whose DP centers have similar setups (in the rare
event that they actually get fired).

I would like to know if other colleges have similarly backward
computing centers which are living in the dark ages of computing. Are
things really this bad at other schools?

	Jim Reuter
	Univ. of Cincinnati ECE
	(decvax!cincy!jreuter)