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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 17:47:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 17:47:32 1984
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I agree, but there is freedom of resources and freedom of access.  One
has been lost and probably will never be recovered.  The PDP 11/45 was
sufficiently small and isolated that few people even heard of it (I
played adventure on it once).  Only to a relatively small community
was it available to do almost anything.  Today, a small percentage
change in access means a lot of users and usually a lot of hardware.
People who know what they're up to can still do all kinds of things
on the micros, but the VAXen are no longer a freebie curiosity that
needed to be used to justify themselves.  With the increase in the
user community came adminstration, and then resource control.  I am
fortunate is having access to Unix source, but it is a priviledge I
earned by being a bug-shooter, not because I thought I had something
that someday might be interesting.  Unless the resources are there
just for personal use, someone is going to ask a user to justify their
resource consumption.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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