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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.college
Subject: Re: Free and undirected campus computing facilities
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Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 10:20:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 10:20:08 1984
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"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....

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