Note that it is possible for faculty and staff at Newark and Camden to get accounts on the New Brunswick system. Basic communications services RUCS provides services of the same kind that you would expect to get from an Internet Service Provider. This includes email, netnews, web page hosting, and support services such as domain name service. In most cases you can use these services directly from your desktop PC or workstation. However you may need to log into one of our central Unix systems to do a few administrative functions such as changing your password.
Some departments provide similar services, particularly for email.
So you may have a choice between receiving email on a central RUCS server or on a departmental server. An increasing number of people are doing all of their work on their own PC or workstation. However there are often tasks for which a larger computer makes sense. Thus RUCS supplies a set of large Sun Unix servers, which any faculty or staff member can use. The same computers are used to store email and web pages.