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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?

I have used neither but our department is in the process of buying
a classroom of PC compatibles (386 or 486 SX) for elementary chemistry
education. We expect the students to do the majority of their
work on their local machines and to use the net mainly for output. In 
addition, the supervisor would use it for loading of programs from the 
server to the local hard disks. This situation is different from the classic 
scientific set-up with many users processing simultaneously on a high-speed 
computer from more or less dumb terminals. 

I would think that your use of the net would be similar and would therefore
not be afraid of the Novell solution.

More important for my decisions would be what the cost is and what kind of 
technical support I can get for the two alternatives.

Whichever solution you end up with, you will have problems :-) :-)

Rolf Manne
Department of Chemistry, University of Bergen, Norway
e-mail Rolf.Manne@uib.no