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2frtwoody@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Jesse Slicer) writes:

>Say gang?  Where has everybody been as of late?  This place seems fairly dead
>as far as newsgroups go.  So let's get up a nice lively topic.  How about the
>Kansas abortion bill?  Good, too restrictive, not restrictive enough?!?  Let's
>hear some action! 

Hi Jesse!

Abortion?  In this group!  Whoa!  This is not a very good ice breaker.

Let's talk about KU-Manhattan.  Why does KU want to usurp K-State's
academic computing?  Well, I guess that's a pretty defensive topic.
We'll drop that one too.

I would like to know (actually) what the undergraduate computer
science programs are like in other schools across the state.  Do you
get experience working on multi-user environments?  What operating
systems do you work with primarily?  DOS, UNIX, VMS?  What languages
do you come out having learned?

Here at K-State, freshman typically use DOS boxes to learn Pascal.
The assembly course is taught on PDP-11's, running RT11.  The
introductory OS course is taught with a UNIX system, and introduces
students to C.  The Software Engineering course is taught with C as
well, and students typically use SunOS running X11R5.  The typical
student will come out without any VMS experience at all.

Recently, every student on campus is allowed a UNIX account on
matt.ksu.ksu.edu, usually limited to a 2 meg disk quota.  matt is a
Solbourne, configured with 4 processors.  As usual, any student may
also have an account on the IBM box, KSUVM, which has (to my knowledge
(i am not too sure)) MVS and CMS.  There are a few PC labs here and
there.

G'night, Gracie.

>Jesse C. Slicer
>University of Kansas Computer Science
>Internet: 2frtwoody@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
>Bitnet: 2frtwoody@bitnet.ukanvax

>"A mind is a wonderful thing to waste!"

You watched "Growing Pains", didn't ya'?
-- 
James C. Hu (jxh@math.ksu.edu), 1804 Denholm Dr., Manhattan, KS 66502
Opinions expressed are mine.  Let me know if they are someone else's.