Integrating the personal computer into the university computing center environment

In this paper an approach to the integration of personal computers with a university computing center is outlined. The approach involves the development of application-oriented software local to the personal computer effectively transforming it into a software workstation. This permits users to take advantage of the features and resources of both the personal computer and the main-frame. To facilitate the development of such software the paper outlines an approach to the design of workstations. An experiment involving the development of a simple editing workstation based upon this method is described and discussed.