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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: Teaching UNIX
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Date: Wed, 21-Nov-84 11:42:47 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 21 11:42:47 1984
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> when that release gets shipped,
> then the opportunity for large IBM and IBM-compatible systems to run a unix
> environment for teaching is greatly improved.  Then, you may see a further
> increase in the teaching of computer science directly in such an environment.
> For the moment, we will have to settle for greatly overloaded VAXen.
> Herb Chong...

The problem is that the computer science department doesn't have enough
VAXen to do any more than a small amount of its teaching on.  And, unless
arrangements have changed in the last few years, the math faculty doesn't
have complete control over its computing budget anyway - some of it is
in the form of pseudo-money that HAS to be spent on computing centre
resources.  We couldn't stop using the computing centre for teaching
courses even if we wanted to.  Given that, I am concerned about the
possibility of making the computing centre a nicer environment for
teaching.