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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey
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Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 19:18:28 EST
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There was an interesting CS seminar today at U of T, a fellow from
Brown University describing their "electronic classroom" work with
some references to future plans.  He made one interesting point,
which I sincerely hope the planners at U of T (and elsewhere) will
pay attention to (ARE YOU LISTENING, OVER THERE IN MCLENNAN LABS AND
SANDFORD FLEMING??):  don't expect miracles if your idea of a "personal
workstation" is an IBM PC.  He cited a "7 M's" definition of a reasonable
workstation, attributed to Bill Joy:

	Megabyte of memory
	Megapixel screen (800x1024 is close enough)
	MIP (million instructions per second) processor (68000 is ok)
	Mouse
	Megabyte/s network
	Menu-based interface
	Memory (large contiguous unsegmented virtual)

Note that a garden-variety IBM PC under MSDOS has none of these.
Brown uses Apollo workstations.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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