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In article <T8oyuB1w165w@netlink.cts.com>, forcer@netlink.cts.com (Nicholas Rahaghi) writes:
> At our local high-school we have a problem. Our school, is meant to be 
> a center for Computer/Science and Math, and attempts to live up to that 
> name. Recently, we have acquired a new Physical Network of 386 
> computers. Most teachers and administrators have resolved to run NOVELL 
> Netware as the operating system. I, an a few others feel that UNIX may be 
> a better environment. In your opinion, Is UNIX proper for a High-school 
> programming environment?
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I feel that it may be a good environment so long as you limit the range of
commands using a shell script in order to concentrate on the intended 
course material, rather than having to learn commands which at first sight 
may appear terse and illogical to high school students. However, it has, in 
my opinion, one of the best "network" systems going, and is the easiest to 
manage. In addition, most UNIX-based systems, to my knowledge, are geared 
to science and engineering, if this is what you want. Up to 50 terminals 
can be run on UNIX, provided they are all doing work which doesn't hog time
on the CPU to a great extent, which I suspect they won't. If you plan to 
teach them the command language, it is like the "C" language, so you might 
as well teach them "C" (unless you only wish to teach them the on-line 
commands.