t;computing as a public good.&quot; He provided
        some striking statistics concerning the extent of
        computing equipment requiring some level of support at
        Stanford: roughly 60,000 desktop machines (60% PC, 30%
        Mac, 10% Unix); 516 subnets with 50,000 nodes; and more
        than 100% growth in web pages and 1,000% growth in disk
        space between 1994 and 1998. The committee had considered
        two alternative models for &quot;computing as a public
        good,&quot; he 