Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-ee!davy From: davy@ecn-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: To Purdue's Defense - (nf) Message-ID: <2054@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 18:17:01 EDT Article-I.D.: pur-ee.2054 Posted: Thu Aug 16 18:17:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Aug-84 00:44:38 EDT Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 39 #N:ecn-ee:15500008:000:1726 ecn-ee!davy Aug 16 16:38:00 1984 I'm posting this for a friend, send all mail, nastygrams, etc. to him. I'm staying out of this. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Having been a graduate student at Purdue for several years, I found a great deal of misconception in the note about the ECN and the management thereof. Because of the growing demands on the network by an ever increasing student population, the network has grown from a single PDP-11/70 to a network of 15 Vaxes with a variety of support hardware. It should also be noted that in this time frame, the software staff has decreased from six persons to three. There have been vacancies open for as long as I have been here, but being a univ- ersity, Purdue cannot meet the wages of the industrial sector, so the staff decreases. With respect to the comments about the ECN and living in an ``Ivory Tower,'' I have taught classes over the course of the past two years. Whenever I have shown that a program does not work, they have repaired the program as quickly as possible. There have been times that they have had to go to the folks at Berkley to get problems resolved. Further, unlike many installations, if there is a question, there are people hired to answer questions. Problems or questions about the software can also be handled by mailing questions to the proper person. It should be understood that no system is perfect, and that the ECN is no exception to this rule; however, having seen and dealt with the operations of this network, it is very clear that the person writing the ECN slam-o-gram was uninformed. Bradley Smith (pur-ee!sb)