Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!herbie From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.college Subject: Re: Free and undirected campus computing facilities Message-ID: <649@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 10:20:08 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.649 Posted: Tue Nov 13 10:20:08 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Nov-84 03:46:31 EST References: <457@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 27 "Free computing", as you put it, hasn't quite died at Waterloo. I have been told that all grad students in CS get a complimentary watbun account for the Honeywell. Any CS grad student that can't talk their way into official access to one of the Unix systems doesn't deserve their CS degree. Electrical Engineering now has two Vax 780s. Everyone in CCNG and VLSI gets one free. Most of the other EE grads get their own micro's and minis to work on. All the micros on campus are not accounted in any way. This includes about 500 IBM PC's, hundreds of DEC Rainbows and PRO's, more that we know what to do with. Undergrads only have free access to these. So, undergrads have free access to micros, and grad students usually have free access to everything else. There is billing done on Unix and our VM/CMS systems, but not on our VMS systems. So the net effect is computing is still free, but what systems you can do it on depends on whether you are graduate or not. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu POST: Department of Computing Services University of Waterloo Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1 (519)886-4733 x3524