[TUHS] Project Athena archive

[TUHS] Project Athena archive

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Sergey Lapin

    > Is there some archives of project Athena?
    > I'd like to see how it was back then...

There is an _very_ extensive online archive of stuff here:

  http://web.mit.edu/afs/

and what you're looking for might be in there _somewhere_.

If not, I know some people I can ask (I never used it myself). But, if so, a
bit more detail? Athena was huge, presumably you don't want all the students'
files! But just the operating system? (IIRC it was initially mostly 4.3BSD,
with some minor extensions.) Or the tools and applications they wrote as well?
(E.g. X-Windows, IIRC, came from Athena.) Most of that does seem to be in
that archive.

	Noel

[TUHS] Project Athena archive

[Win Treese]

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> On Apr 20, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
>> From: Sergey Lapin
> 
>> Is there some archives of project Athena?
>> I'd like to see how it was back then...
> 
> There is an _very_ extensive online archive of stuff here:
> 
>  http://web.mit.edu/afs/
> 
> and what you're looking for might be in there _somewhere_.

I don’t have much in the way of archives, but I worked there
from 1984 to 1988. The best set of technical papers was
the set presented at the Winter 1988 USENIX Conference
in Dallas (disclaimer: I wrote one of them), and
I probably have some PDFs of them stashed away. Those
included papers about the X Window System, the changes to
4.3BSD, the Kerberos authentication system, the Hesiod name
service, the Zephyr notification system, and the Moira service
management system. There was also a paper on the Online
Consulting system that (I think) appeared later.

Also, the Associate Director of Athena from Digital Equipment,
George Champine, wrote a book called "MIT Project Athena:
Model for Distributed Campus Computing”.

I’d be happy to answer any questions about the work at Athena
from that time.

Best,

Win Treese
treese at acm.org

[TUHS] Project Athena archive

[Sergey Lapin]

Hi, all!

Is there some archives of project Athena?
I'd like to see how it was back then...

Thanks,
S.
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