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Re: Blue-sky idea: Athena on CD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phillip Long)
Thu Mar 25 12:11:16 2004
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From: Phillip Long <longpd@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 12:11:13 -0500
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Greg: I like the idea! This is similar to the notion floating around
at one point of students having their own portable disk storage from
which they boot and use the I/O and CPU resources of a workstation
device but not the storage. Unfortunately, the lack of consistency in
and market development for personal disk storage devices, save for
perhaps the iPod for Mac folks, hasn't helped us move this idea forward
much.
Regards,
phil
On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I saw this go by on a SIPB list.
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:36, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> William Hartnett (wjh@mit.edu) is working on a project to have an
>> Athenized Knoppix CD. The idea is that you could stick in the CD and
>> then log in as your Athena username and password onto a fresh machine.
>
> The idea of Athena on a CD (with no need to touch the computer's hard
> disk) seems like it might be a hack with great customer value, although
> I suspect space constraints might force it to be a DVD. We may want to
> look into this ourselves if we ever have some free resources.
>
>
Phillip D. Long, Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
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Greg: I like the idea! This is similar to the notion floating around
at one point of students having their own portable disk storage from
which they boot and use the I/O and CPU resources of a workstation
device but not the storage. Unfortunately, the lack of consistency in
and market development for personal disk storage devices, save for
perhaps the iPod for Mac folks, hasn't helped us move this idea
forward much.
Regards,
phil
On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
<excerpt>I saw this go by on a SIPB list.
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:36, Sam Hartman wrote:
<excerpt>William Hartnett (wjh@mit.edu) is working on a project to
have an
Athenized Knoppix CD. The idea is that you could stick in the CD and
then log in as your Athena username and password onto a fresh machine.
</excerpt>
The idea of Athena on a CD (with no need to touch the computer's hard
disk) seems like it might be a hack with great customer value, although
I suspect space constraints might force it to be a DVD. We may want to
look into this ourselves if we ever have some free resources.
</excerpt><fontfamily><param>Helvetica</param>Phillip D. Long,
Ph.D. -- longpd@mit.edu
Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise
MIT - N42-005 -- voice:617-452-4038
77 Massachusetts Avenue (street 211 Mass. Ave.) -- fax: 617-253-8665
Cambridge, MA 02139</fontfamily>
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