We recently got word from Tim Raymond about the replacment of the SGI lab
this summer!!!! Looks good! [In case you didn't know, the SGI machines are
circa 1989]

TTYL
Josh

>Hi,
>  In collaboration the the Dean's Office, EM-CF is proud to announce the
>upgrade of the current UNIX lab in 229 Votey.  After a long and in-depth
>process, we have decided to purchase NEW Sun Ultra 10 computers.  These
>workstations are currently technology (just announced in January), have
>very fast CPU's (yes, faster than new PC's), and very fast graphics (much
>faster than the current ones).  The configuration of the machines is as
>follows:
>
>Sun Ultra 10                   (http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/Ultra10/)
>       300 MHz Ultra IIi CPU
>       192 MB memory
>       4.0 GB disk
>       3D Creator Series 3 graphics
>               (http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/Graphics/creator3d.html)
>       21" monitors
>       10/100 Autosensing Ethernet cards
>       C,C++,Fortran 77/90,Pascal,Java languages
>               (http://www.sun.com/software/Developer-products/)
>               (http://www.sun.com/workshop/java/)
>
>  We will be installing the machines in the lab during the June/July
>timeframe.

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>Tim