[78] in Resnet-Forum
Re: Pete Bronder's response to Why?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Tue Nov 30 14:29:42 1993
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:06:54 -0800
To: resnet-forum@MIT.EDU
> Pete Bronder <pb0q+@andrew.cmu.edu> sez:
>
> 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
Let me again make clear that I'm supportive of the concept, but I feel the
need to ask hard questions to drag out the kind of facts that will
impress tough-minded managers. So with respect to the above, how do you
decide to spend $X on residential networking versus something else the
students might be asking for? We know why the students are asking for
it; it's for the reasons you have given. But how does the institution
translate that into a commitment to spend money on that when there are
so many other things competing for funding?
