Roy Discipline-specific has to keep being justified. We have five labs. Eventually, Academic Computing could service our labs. Then the sunset clause says they can t support anything two years or older. Now we have these older machines that do the job and we have to do the support again.
More resources have to go into discipline-specific labs.
A process controller does not have to have Windows 2000 on it. Even to keep a 486 process controller working takes time and Academic Computing won t do the things to make it go. In the past we ve lost money because they didn t get processed soon enough. We have 3 people who support all the machines on campus. Andy Not just the labs, we do more than that.