[2059] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NREN and the Economics of Mainframes Versus Workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Sirbu)
Thu Jan 23 09:10:19 1992
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1992 09:08:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook), Richard Mandelbaum <rma@tsar.cc.rochester.edu>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9201231333.AA29429@tsar.cc.rochester.edu>
> Why doesn't your computational scientist use his sun workstation in
> the chemistry department to do E-mail with as well.
Probably because the Sun is down the hall in the lab and is shared with
many others, while he has a terminal on his desk -- formerly used for
accessing the VAX and now used for accessing Compuserve.
Marvin Sirbu
Carnegie Mellon University
