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...words "revamping the UNIX systems" cause some uneasiness, relax. Steen appears to have found the solution to the problem that makes people's blood boil...
Right now, the "fas" SparcServer is the center of HASCS's Unix universe. Because fas is the physical location of the system's 14,000 user home directories, all 35 of the UNIX machines which students now use (including the workstations in the terminal room, the course machines and husc7) must be constantly connected...
Although it will have no effect on the speed of a user's network connection, thousands of requests and responses every second will bog down the local network segment between the UNIX machines...
While the NAB and the switch may seem to add needless complexity, they really don't. In fact, Steen is actually streamlining the UNIX configuration with these new devices. He is using the age-old computer science concept of abstraction--insulating different parts of the system from each other...
Moreover, Steen knows that people rely on the services he provides and that people do meaningful work on the UNIX systems daily. Any new solution will be more thoroughly tested than any other system has been to date...