[net.nlang.greek] Comments #2 on CS Curriculum of Crete

kateveni@Shasta (05/01/84)

From: Manolis Katevenis <kateveni@Shasta>

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  Date: Thursday, 26 Apr 1984 19:50-PST
  To: KRH-HY-DEP at Shasta <KRH-HY-DEP@Shasta>
  Subject: Re: Programma mathimatwn Kritis
  In-Reply-To: Pavlos's message of 26 Apr 84 13:44 EST.
  From: Manolis Katevenis <kateveni@Shasta>
  
  Pavlo mou,
  ola auta pou les -- egw eimai mesa. Etsi ki alloiws, den katalabainw
  kai polla, egw o kakomoiris hardwaratzis, ap' ola auta -- tha kanw
  auditing to mathima sou!
  
  Oson afora tous algorithmous san proapaitoumeno twn O.S.'s, compilers:
  Egw sto Berkeley pira O.S.'s prin parw algorithmous, kai den aisthan-
  thika na mou leipei tipota -- bebaia, mporei i aisthisi mou na me
  apata, esy xereis kalytera.  Ekei pou aisthanthika (kai aisthanomai)
  elleipsi einai se "automata theory & parsing" pou den peira prin tous
  compilers.  Auto moiazei na yparchei: 280 -->340.
  
  O Thanasis Hatzilacos (ochi o Vassos), otan eiche dei to proteinomeno
  programma prin peripou ena mina, eiche kanei ta exis kyriws scholia:
  (1) Enallaktika me ti Fysiki na mporoun na pairnoun Oikonomika.
  	Q: ma afou den echei Oikonomika sto Hrakleio
  	A: ela mwre, tosoi anergoi Oikonomologoi yparchoun stin
  		Ellada, eiche pei...
  (2) Merika apo ta mathimata mas den tha prepei na einai proairetika?
  
  
  Skepseis gia metaptychiako? -- Fysika kai yparchoun skepseis gia
  metaptychiako!
  
  Egw programmatizw na dwsw to HY-530 tin anoixi tou 85: "Architektoniki
  Systimatwn II". Tha parw yliko kyriws apo auto pou didaskw twra edw
  sto Stanford: CS-311 "Computer System Architecture" -- 1st year
  graduate.  Gia na eimai eilikrinis, otan perysi to kalokairi eicha
  proteinei to HW kommati tou programmatos tis Kritis, eicha balei
  to miso yliko tou CS-311 sto HY-430 (...fysika, stin Kriti, to epi-
  pedo twn foititwn tha einai anwtero tou Stanford!... -- kai gia na
  milisoume sobara, to Berkeley kai to Stanford echoun ena mono
  proptychiako se architektoniki: to diko mas 230!).  To 530, ypo
  K.S. tha echei kapws psilwtero periechomeno:
  
  HY-530:
  	Epanalypsi instruction set styles, addressing modes
  	Meleti merikwn yparktwn architektonikwn
  	Tradeoffs in system architecture design
  	Meleti twn idiotitwn twn High-Level-Languages (HLL measurements)
  	architectural support for HLL's, OS's
  	more on caches and virtual memory
  	peripheral devices
  	hardware for raster displays, graphics, networking (?)
  
  Ena allo metaptychiako pou prepei na ftiaxoume kapote (alla eimai
  aproetoimastos akoma) tha einai panw se "High Performance Digital
  System Engineering" (praktikes technikes kai methodes, special-
  purpose digital systems).  Me ton kairo, pou tha archisoume na
  douleuoume se CAD/CAM, tha ftiaxoume kai kei kanena mathimataki.
  
  Pros to parwn, to 85, nomizw oti tha prosarmosw to epipedo tou
  mathimatos analoga me to akroatirio, kapou metaxy 430 kai 530.
  
  Manolis.
  
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