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From: wjjordan@watrose.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan)
Newsgroups: soc.college
Subject: Re: Printout theft
Message-ID: <8175@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 15:49:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  6 15:49:10 1986
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Reply-To: wjjordan@watrose.UUCP (W. Jim Jordan)
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Organization: Canada's Yuppieland, Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: hard copy
Summary: 

>I would  be interested in hearing about IO arrangements at other
>schools.

Students at Waterloo can get accounts on various systems.
These include several VAXen running Unix, a Honeywell DPS8/49 (affectionately
known as the Bun), IBM freezers running VM/CMS, and networks of PCs connected
by JANET.

The Unix systems (most of them, anyway) talk to the Bun, which
is often used as the print spooler for our large crop of VAXen within the 
faculty of mathematics.  Printouts from the Bun are filed according to the
first letter of the userid every half-hour by the operators.  If you specify
a banner name beginning with $$, the operators will hold the printout until
you ask them for it.  The Unix systems also have self-service printers
scattered throughout the buildings which users can direct their printouts to
and pick them up as soon as they are printed.

CMS users don't have any option like this that I know of.  Their printouts
are filed by first two letters of their userid, unless they are major users,
in which case they get a section labelled with their userid.

JANET users spool their printouts, then explicitly request their listings
to be printed.  The printers are self-serve.  When the paper runs out,
someone calls the Department of Computing Services operator, and things proceed
from there.

Just about every system on campus (except the micro networks) can be accessed
through a Sytek network.  Most of the public terminals are connected to Sytek,
though a few still use Gandalf boxes to select a system.  There are a number of
327x terminals around which are hard-wired to CMS.  The limiting factor for 
access to most systems is not the number of terminals, but the number of Sytek
ports available on the machine.

						regards,
							wjj


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"Syncopation is staggering from bar to bar."

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