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Athena Release 8.0 for Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorothy Bowe)
Fri May 31 13:44:19 1996
To: ise40@MIT.EDU, is11@MIT.EDU
Cc: sipb-staff@MIT.EDU, cluster-managers@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 13:43:22 EDT
From: Dorothy Bowe <dot@MIT.EDU>
On Tuesday, June 18th, Athena Release 8.0 will enter the next stage of
testing ("early test") on Sun workstations. This round of testing
should include many staff machines as well as a few machines in general
use clusters. Earlier today, a message went out to the contacts for all
Suns configured to take this release. Please send me (dot@mit.edu) the
hostname of your workstation if you did not receive a message this
morning and are willing and able to take this release on your Sun
SPARC/5 or SPARC/classic. (If you have or will have a SPARC/4, you will
must to take release 8.0.)
This release will become public in early to mid July and includes the
following features:
* Solaris 2.4 with AFS 3.4a
($ATHENA_SYS = sun4m_54)
* Emacs 19.30 is the default version of emacs.
* Emacs 18 is available as a separate command
(/usr/athena/bin/emacs18)
* /usr/athena/bin/cc now points to sun cc
* Transcript 4.1
* MIME support has been built into MH but is turned off in
the default environment.
Thank you.
./dot
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Dorothy Bowe
Academic Computing Support
Faculty Liaison
email: dot@mit.edu
phone: (617)253-0170
fax: (617)258-8736
