Project Athena
<project> A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at MIT. Much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the X Window System. (2000-02-24) | ||||
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project athena
a distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at mit. much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the x window system
project athena
a distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at mit. much of the software developed is now in wider use, especially the x window system
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Project Athena
Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM. It was launched in 1983, and research and development ran through June 30, 1991, eight years after it began. While it is widely believed that the goals were to create a computing environment that would scale up to 10,000 workstations (like VAX) and accommodate heterogeneous hardware, yet be "coherent"; in fact, the goal was to improve the quality of education delivered by the Institute. The concept that a user could go to any workstation and access any files or applications without finding major differences in the user interface and service delivery, just like browsing the Internet today, was felt to be key to the delivery of a better educational experience
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