MIT Project Athena

Download or read book MIT Project Athena written by George A. Champine and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1991 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hands-on account of the design, implementation, and performance of Project Athena. Based on thousands of pages of reports and the author's own experience, this important book lets you in on the design, implementation, and performance of Project Athena - now a production system of networked workstations that is replacing time-sharing (which MIT also pioneered) as the preferred model of computing at MIT. The book is organized in four parts, covering management, pedagogy, technology, and administration. Appendixes describe deployment of Project Athena systems at five other schools, provide guidelines for installation, and recommend end-user policies.