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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse
Subject: Re: Re: Why force the AT&T at UVM?
Message-ID: <1371@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-May-85 20:13:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1371
Posted: Sun May 12 20:13:20 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 13-May-85 03:29:22 EDT
References: <380@uvm-cs.UUCP> <281@tilt.FUN> <239@uvm-gen.UUCP> <1144@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Xref: watmath net.college:734 net.cse:392
Summary: 

In article <1144@sjuvax.UUCP> jss@sjuvax.UUCP (J. Shapiro) writes:
(while describing his ideal personal)

>and at least a 20Mbyte hard disk with an access time no higher
>than 30 ns.
i could use a few that fast on our vax.  surely you mean 30ms.

as for CPU killers, i did some stuff for a 4th year project that
required just over 2 CPU hours on an IBM 3081.  using a few rough
scalings, that's on the order of 50 CPU hours on a 11/780,
for one run.  i needed to do 3 correct ones.  there are a few of us
that will run any CPU made into the ground.  i would not even dream
of using anything less than a vax even for scaled down testing.

i think that the UVM decision was based on the "average" student needs
in the particular faculties and was as much political as technical.
what were the technical qualifications of the people who made the
recommendations and the decisions for this action?  if this has already
been discussed (i don't remember seeing it), then please send e-mail.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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