Aucbvax.2262 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Mon Jul 13 05:20:44 1981 Working at home>From Joe.Newcomer@CMU-10A Mon Jul 13 05:13:06 1981 Huh? "I'll leave my work behind when I go out the door?" I've never heard such bullshit. First of all, it makes the rather bizarre assumption that I even want to come IN the door. Actually, I would much rather work at home. This means such serious issues as how to get reasonable communication bandwidth between my processor and the rest of its network is a very serious problem. And it also seems to be predicated on the strange (and patently false, in my case) assumption that one WANTS to leave the machine behind. I ENJOY what I'm doing, and want to be able to do it equally well from home or "work". Thus the goal, for example, of giving every CMU researcher a personal machine is not really satisfactory; I need two, or at least a display with a high-bandwidth (say, 10MHz) connection to the "real" machine. Perhaps in that strange world where people turn their minds off when they leave the office this is a reasonable attitude, but I've never yet met a professional in any area who was capable of doing this. And if you DON'T make the facilities available at home, you are defeating the purpose of having personal workstations: to make individuals more productive. I don't think it is the domain of office automation designers to dictate when and where one has automation available. Assume it needs to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at home and "at work", THEN figure out what the problems are. I have this from direct experience. When I had a 1200 baud C-100 in the office and a 1200 baud C100 at home, I could work interchangeably in either location. When I got 9600 baud in the office, I worked less at home. Now that I have a Perq in the office, I can't work at home at all. This is a real drag. I see absolutely no philosophical reason to not provide equal computing facilities at home and at work. The only limitations are technical (like bandwidth) and financial (most companies can't afford two 30ドルK workstations per user). So "office" automation designers should go after those problems, and quit making such totally wedged statements that seem to reflect a basic misunderstanding of what a "personal workstation" really should be! joe ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.