On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Gregg Levine wrote: > > Wasn't the original project called "Athena", and wasn't it pursued by > one of the many Labs at MIT? ​Greg - not quite right, although I can see how I might look that way from the outside. The Athena project was MIT's reaction to the CMU Andrew​ Project. I'll not bring the somewhat humorous history but basic question asked was simple... assume CMU succeeded in building the proposed 3M 'SPICE' system for Andrew. MIT wanted to know: How would you deploy it? Athena set out to figure that out... It's interesting the two pieces of Athena that actually still live are X and Kerberos where were developed as part of the Athena project. I understand why Kerberos and much of that tech was needed if you were going to deploy hundreds of computers. I don't remember the argument for writing X - i.e. why it was needed, you'd have to ask Dan Geer (I've forgotten). FYI: In the case of Andrew, Mach and some of the AFS technology (and I've heard some suggest it helped to move IBM into the doing RIOS which eventually lead to Power/PC). Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: