Re: Should schools declare a platform?

Reg Beck (rbeck@cln.etc.bc.ca)
Thu, 2 Nov 1995 23:49:27 EST

>Marilyn asked:
> I'm on a district technology committee, and some leaders of our
>committee have talked about declaring a platform, either IBM or Macintosh
>in our technology plan. At present, our district has multiple platforms;
>some of us are Macintoshes and others are on IBM.

Don't do that! Instead "declaring a platform" let users select either of the
above as they wish. A better plan is to get a large DOS file server, run a
network
on it such as Novell with an Ethernet cabling system to connect all the
computers together. MACs and PCs get along just fine on an Ethernet local
area network.

Reg Beck
Columneetza Sec. School
Williams Lake, BC
rbeck@cln.etc.bc.ca