Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!perelgut From: perelgut@utcsrgv.UUCP (Stephen Perelgut) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.research,net.cse Subject: Re: First Summary of PC's in Education Survey Message-ID: <3466@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 6-Mar-84 22:17:37 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3466 Posted: Tue Mar 6 22:17:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Mar-84 23:24:06 EST References: <3604@utzoo.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 21 In defence of IBM-PC's (and their compatible buddies): - The 80186 is arguably as good as a 68000 and anyone with talent can create software to run on the 80186 and 8088 and all the other family members - 8088 based micros are the most popular. It isn't fair to students to force them to buy another machine. This may change with the Macintosh-madness. (If the happens, the CSRG is capable of making the switch with little pain.) - Since Canada has no history of corporate support of universities, the choice of micro is typically dependant on who makes the best offer and what is available "north of the border." Aside from this, th "7 M's" are true for Brown's "animated algorithms" scheme, but they aren't essential for the simple task of introductory computer programming courses. An IBM PC (or Tandy 2000 or DEC Rainbow or ...) is suitable, cheaper, available, and currently popular. -- Stephen Perelgut Computer Systems Research Group University of Toronto Usenet: {linus, ihnp4, allegra, decvax, floyd}!utcsrgv!perelgut CSNET: perelgut@Toronto