Integrating the personal computer into the university computing center environment: “A marriage of necessity!”

Authors:
Michael A. Bauer;J. Michael Bennett;Albert Lee
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, CANADA;Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, CANADA;Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B9, CANADA
Venue:
SIGUCCS '83 Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
Year:
1983

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Abstract

In this paper an approach to the integration of personal computers with a university computing center is outlined. The approach involves the development of application-oriented software local to the personal computer effectively transforming it into a software workstation. This permits users to take advantage of the features and resources of both the personal computer and the main-frame. To facilitate the development of such software the paper outlines an approach to the design of workstations. An experiment involving the development of a simple editing workstation based upon this method is described and discussed.