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∂MLOT Tony Siegman↓Ginzton Laboratory$$Relationship Between LOTS and Sponsored
Research Projects∞

Thanks for your thoughtful memo of 23 November.  I agree with most of the
concerns you have listed and since yours is, so far, the only written
comment on the subject, it is likely to be instrumental.  
If you do not object, I will circulate your memo to our advisory board.

We will certainly
need a more precisely stated policy, but I have decided to delay formulating
it for a few months until the problem is clearer (i.e., until it becomes
clearer what our resources are and who wants to use them for what).  In
one regard, the problem is more difficult than your memo indicates.  The
DEC 20/40 is a large computer; we still have about as much memory as the
360/67 had, and the machine is about half as fast.  It is compatible
with previous generation PDP 10's and several groups have large programs
that could completely soak up the LOTS resource if we allowed it.

Your Israeli post-doc is welcome on LOTS for now, and I think he will
remain welcome.  But this is subject to the proviso that course work will
have first priority.
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cc:  Ralph Gorin, Jim Adams