ABSTRACT
Typically a college campus has a computing facility, a service center. This service center could be either an administrative or an academic/research computing facility. It could be centralized into one center, or it could be decentralized with each computing center having its own systems. The actual organization of the campus computing facilities makes no difference. A new class or service a requirement developing in universities is often referred to as personalized computing. In personalized computing, each user has his or her own computer. To demonstrate the network concept more specifically, let consider a sample computing network. Normally, a university has a large mainframe computer that is designed to support large database applications , production systems and some general purpose timesharing. Introductory programming on languages such as BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal are satisfied by high performance timesharing systems that are designed to maximize student response times and provide small-to-moderate-sized statistical and other application packages.
