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- From: jk87377@cc.tut.fi (Juhana Kouhia)
- Subject: Re: Question about CG education
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.111042.28618@cc.tut.fi>
- Organization: Tampere University of Technology
- References: <WALVER.92Dec15070915@kielo.uta.fi>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 11:10:42 GMT
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- In article <WALVER.92Dec15070915@kielo.uta.fi> walver@uta.fi (Ville
- Walveranta) writes:
- >
- > Aren't there any schools that use *real* graphics workstations
- > (I'm talking about undergraduate programs)in teaching and labs?
- > Every single college that offers a programs in computer
- > graphics/animation seems to have PCs or MACs in the labs.
-
- Sounds horrible.
-
- The fact is that such machines are cheap, unlike computers like SGI.
- Because there's more undergraduates than graduates, there's
- need for many computers; with the price of SGI you buy many
- machines.
-
- It is hard to think that the above is the reason to not buy,
- for example, Suns with color monitor or such.
- Because they buy PCs and MACs, the commercial software must
- not be the most important thing anyway.
-
- Also, if the work is done with homecomputers, may students
- do their work with their own homecomputer.
-
- Juhana Kouhia
-