From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:40:10 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] old X versions (was:X and NeWS history) In-Reply-To: References: <201709111649.v8BGnGTx005812@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <20170911230910.GH7819@mcvoy.com> <201709120738.v8C7ckOF007026@freefriends.org> <201709121535.v8CFZOuB015695@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <201709122211.v8CMB3pf029787@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <201709130014.v8D0EHEi021561@darkstar.fourwinds.com> <1505781872.3170445.1110508336.1E68BC0D@webmail.messagingengine.com> <201709191405.v8JE5iI5027378@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Message-ID: 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: