[80] in Layered Athena
draft announcement needs work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 4 17:59:45 1994
From: brlewis@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 94 17:57:55 -0400
To: layered-athena@MIT.EDU
I have a feeling I'm leaving something out. Or maybe I'm just not
completely explaining something....
WHAT IS LAYERED ATHENA?
Layered Athena offers you a way to select those Athena programs you want
for your private workstation without requiring that you replace your
operating system, and without requiring that you take all of the Athena
programs. (In the past, to have Athena functionality, you needed to have
the Athena version of the base operating system installed on your
machine instead of the native operating system, and you had to take all
of Athena, not parts.)
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Participants in the beta test will get better initial support than those
who use Layered Athena after the beta test. Beta testers will get early
access that gives users read/write access to Athena lockers as well as
the rest of AFS, and programs to which Athena users have become
accustomed.
WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACKS?
Support Athena users are accustomed to will not be available. OLC does
not support Layered Athena for HP's. Not all Athena software has been
ported to the HP.
WHO MAY PARTICIPATE IN THE BETA TEST?
Any member of the MIT community who is in charge of a MITnet-connected
HP Series 700 workstation running HP/UX 9.0 may participate in the beta
test. To keep the size of the test manageable, there will be an upper
limit of 10 sites. This may be raised if things go smoothly during the
first month of beta test.
