Welcome!
Welcome to the linux server for the Department of
Economics at Wake Forest University. ``Ricardo'' (an IBM PC Server
310, with P200 processor, 128MB of RAM and two 2.1GB SCSI hard drives) was
set up in September 1997. His care and feeding are in the first
instance the responsibility of
Allin Cottrell (Professor of
Economics). I welcome suggestions from others.
We are pleased to acknowledge support from Dean Escott (funds
to purchase the IBM PC Server) and the Computer Enhancement of Learning
Initiative (CELI) at Wake
Forest. Courtesy of the latter, Allin Cottrell was granted release time
from teaching to develop Ricardo over the Fall Semester of 1997.
What can Ricardo do for me?
Ricardo offers Internet-related tools for the enhancement
of faculty-student communications (e.g. local newsgroups and majordomo),
as well as a range of software for data visualization and analysis,
computer algebra, graphics and typesetting.
For details, follow the links below.
Operating system
Ricardo runs the Linux
operating system.
If you want to find out about the server's namesake, David Ricardo,
the nineteenth-century Englishman who put political economy on a rigorous
footing, you can consult his works online here.
Last modified August 19, 1999.