Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.research,net.cse Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey Message-ID: <3604@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 19:18:28 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.3604 Posted: Tue Mar 6 19:18:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 19:18:28 EST References: <3459@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 22 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry