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The three Goulds installed in Engineering last August were given temporary names until the dust settled a bit from moving several ECN machines around. The temporary name given to ME's Gould was G2. At the end of December that name was changed to the permanent name of MG, following the ECN convention of ``M'' for the Mechanical Engineering building and ``G'' because that is the next available letter in the alphabet. To refresh your memory of the machines from A-G, they are:
While most of us have been busy getting acquainted with the new Gould this semester, some new neighbors have moved in that you may not have noticed yet. They are SUN workstations located in research areas.
The first installed was the SUN workstation named CADLAB which (you guessed it!) is in the Computer Aided Design Laboratory located in the Potter Building and directed by Prof. Dave Anderson. Two more SUNS are currently being installed in the Cadlab. All three will be served by the ERC SUN fileserver.
A SUN workstation called MATLAB was installed this fall in the Materials Lab in the M.E. Building where graduate research is conducted under Prof. Ben Hillberry.
The SUN workstations are fully networked to the ECN and run the UNIX operating system. Computers at the workstation level such as the SUN are quickly gaining popularity. They bring significant computing power to the individual's desktop in a friendly fashion, yet maintain the ability to communicate with the departmental machines in a straightforward manner.
Dwight McKay provides more information about Sun Workstations in his article SUNs Are Up on page 9.
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