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The plan for this session is straightforward and simple. Dr. Cox of Washington University in St. Louis will first review some trends in hardware over the past few years, and will point out some of the implications of different hardware choices on computing economy and on the kinds of problems that can sensibly be attacked. Next, Dr. Pratt, who runs the world’s largest biomedical computer menagerie at the National Institutes of Health Campus in the Washington, D. C. area, will describe his operation and some of the issues involved in the choices of the 140 or so different computers that serve his large communitv of users.
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Molnar, C.E. (1974). Introduction. In: Siler, W., Lindberg, D.A.B. (eds) Computers in Life Science Research. FASEB Monographs, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0546-1_16
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