Expansion of OS/2 PC McIDAS Network for Enhanced Education and Research

大气科学系正在通过购置三台新的Pentium个人计算机来更新旧的McIDAS OS/2个人计算机网络，使其McIDAS学生实验室现代化。另外还正在安装彩色激光打印机和数量有限的旧OS/2个人计算机的存储器升级等辅助设备，以使该部能够充分利用未来的McIDAS OS/2能力，改进数据分发系统，并提供一个处理基地，能够对UNIDATA提供的基本软件进行预期的改进。 这种新设备是许多课程的重要工具，学生们在这些课程中解释和开发基于计算机的气象显示。新的基于OS/2的PC为本科生和研究生提供了一个类似工作站的环境，以扩大研究机会。这些工作站添加到实验室释放旧的PC使用的入门课程和实验室，从而使高年级的本科生集中精力在新设备。

The Atmospheric Sciences Department is modernizing its McIDAS student laboratory through acquisition of three new Pentium-based personal computers to upgrade the old McIDAS OS/2 PC-based network. Additional support equipment, in the form of a color laser printer and memory upgrades for a limited number of the old OS/2 PCs, is also being implemented to enable the department to fully exploit the future McIDAS OS/2 capabilities, to improve the data distribution system and for providing a processing base capable of hosting the intended improvements to the basic software as supplied by UNIDATA. This new equipment is a vital tool in many of the classes wherein the students interpret and develop computer-based meteorological displays. The new OS/2-based PCs provide a workstation-like environment for expanded research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. The addition of these workstations to the laboratory frees older PCs for use by the introductory classes and laboratories, thus allowing the upper-class undergraduate students to concentrate their efforts on the new equipment.