Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment

  • Authors:
  • James H. Morris;Mahadev Satyanarayanan;Michael H. Conner;John H. Howard;David S. Rosenthal;F. Donelson Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM - The MIT Press scientific computation series
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

The Information Technology Center (ITC), a collaborative effort between IBM and Carnegie-Mellon University, is in the process of creating Andrew, a prototype computing and communication system for universities. This article traces the origins of Andrew, discusses its goals and strategies, and gives an overview of the current status of its implementation and usage.