[geeks] what is the world coming to...

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:04:44PM -0700, David Passmore wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:01:16AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
> >   Yeah but...while I have very little experience with college (never
> > attended one) I have hung out at a few.  None that I've seen have THAT
> > kind of hardware.  Heck, UMCP had a network of SPARCstation IPXs as
> > distributed fileservers as late as 1997 or so.
> > 
> >   I suppose 600GB of disk CAN cost a fortune if you really want it to.
> 
> I would expect that colleges give you as much as you need to complete your
> assignments and no more. If you really want to think of a college as a
> business (which it is), that's just good cost control. Colleges are
> expensive enough as it is. :)

The bare minimum to complete assignments does nothing to help encourage people
to do more than the minimum.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd