Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!necntc!encore!paradis From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: USENIX terminal room Message-ID: <3263@encore.UUCP> Date: 30 Jun 88 14:59:08 GMT References: <202@longway.TIC.COM> <6111@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis) Organization: The Whizzo Chocolate Company Lines: 26 dave@csd1.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes: >Yes, this was quite helpful. I'd like to suggest though that if possible, >a local number to a local site with something like a telnet shell would >be useful for folks on the internet. I had made siteseeing (no pun intended) >trips to local universities to do some telneting. ??????? Uh, how about visiting one of the many booths at the vendor exhibit that were on the local ethernet? Several of said booths were gatewayed to the internet. It wasn't too hard for me to log in to multimax.arpa from the vendor show... internet PERFORMANCE was another matter entirely, though 8-(. But you would've gotten that anyway whether you logged in from the vendor floor or from a local university. Still, the terminal room was a pretty good idea. Future suggestions include (1) a sufficient number of terminals for reasonable use (maybe a dozen or so, if possible) and (2) 24-hour access (I don't know if the terminal room at this USENIX had that or not, but I noticed that operating hours weren't posted). On an unrelated matter: what was the final registration count? -- Jim Paradis, Encore Computer (.signature undergoing renovations. Please pardon our appearance.)