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- From: michaelb@cse.fau.edu (Michael Rogero Brown)
- Newsgroups: alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- Subject: Re: Personal Computer requirements
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.200340.27127@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 20:03:40 GMT
- References: <199301042133.AA05055@eff.org>
- Sender: news@cybernet.cse.fau.edu
- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
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- In article <199301042133.AA05055@eff.org> U15289@UICVM.UIC.EDU writes:
- >WRT the query last week in these pages on whether a university should require
- >students to buy personal computers: it all boils down to whom the university
- >wants to shift many of the computing costs to, itself or its students. By
- >making students shell out hundreds of bucks per capita for the hard-drive-
- >equipped PC's needed to run the microcomputer releases of many statistical
- >packages, a school saves itself the cost of maintaining as much hardware and
- >software on the multiuser system; but the students are therefore deprived of
- >the additional power and features that reside in the mainframe releases of
- >this software. Overall, it is better to give students accounts on a fully
- >equipped system then to force them to buy and equip microcomputers of their
- >own.
- >
- Another point is that if all the students are using only personally owned PCs,
- they would lose out on the power of networking. WHat about ftp, email,
- telnetting, accessing Usenet? These sorts of things need to be provided
- by the university if the students are going to benefit.
-
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