[72] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Bronder)
Tue Nov 30 09:56:14 1993
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 09:26:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Pete Bronder <pb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU, haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Cc:
In-Reply-To: <199311300743.XAA08100@hobbes.ucsc.edu>
>I'm not trying to be argumentative; I think residential networking is
>a Good Thing. But I'd like to see a list of the reasons people think
>it should be done, and maybe the relative weights when there are
>several reasons. I can think of some reasons by armchair speculation.
>Your reasons may in fact be quite different and probably include some that
>I haven't thought of.
Convienience and performance are two good reasons. To have to walk
across campus to a cluster to get to a workstation that uses some
standard software intallation (vs. personalized) which has a LAN
connection with better throughput is more difficult than having such a
connection on their personalized machine in their own bedroom.
If students are asking for it then you need to ask them why they are
asking for it. I believe it takes into account both performance and
convienience. Today's students are much more computer dependant than
yesterday's due to exposure at other institutions (their high school)
and probably Mom & Dad becoming more advanced and having one at home.
They had the technology available before they got to college and would
at least like the same technology available there if not better.
Pete Bronder- CMU
