When faculty and students purchase PCs, they are often purchasing one which include Windows 95 already installed. From the user perspective, Windows 95 and Windows NT appear the same on the desktop. Oakes Mac Lab will be upgraded to new PCs. A new PC lab at Kresge will be opened in Summer 1997. This is in response to requests from the Kresge Provost and students.
Students prefer PCs in the new lab.
The Foreign Language Computing Lab at Cowell needs improved equipment, and it will be upgraded with new or used Macs this summer. NetBSD has advantages and disadvantages, as does Solaris X86, a version of Unix produced by Sun to run on PCs. This is a specialized topic, and likely will not be a major portion of the forum discussion. We will not have enough information to discuss it at the forum on May 22.