From: CRDGW2::CRDGW2::MRGATE::"SMTP::ANDREW.CMU.EDU::ATKBB+BAD-ADDRESSES" Date: 29-JUL-1989 11:09:11 Description: Re: What is andrew by the way? Received: by andrew.cmu.edu (5.54/3.15) id ; Sat, 29 Jul 89 10:18:45 EDT Received: via switchmail; Sat, 29 Jul 89 10:18:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sharpsburg.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 29 Jul 89 10:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sharpsburg.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Sat, 29 Jul 89 10:13:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Messages.7.10.N.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.sharpsburg.andrew.cmu.edu.rt.r3 via MS.5.6.sharpsburg.andrew.cmu.edu.rt_r3; Sat, 29 Jul 89 10:13:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Date: Sat, 29 Jul 89 10:13:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Jennifer Robertson To: Info-Andrew Subject: Re: What is andrew by the way? In-Reply-To: <1408@ambush.dk> References: <1408@ambush.dk> Here's a blurb about Andrew that we post occasionally. Jenny What is Andrew? "Andrew" is a computing system developed at the Information Technology Center, a joint venture between Carnegie Mellon University and IBM Corporation. The system was named for the primary benefactors of Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon. The complete Andrew system has three major parts -- ATK, AMS, and AFS -- which are described below, but the boundaries between the parts are not absolutely fixed nor rigid. The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is an object-oriented system for supporting the development of programs with flexible user interfaces. It not only supports simple graphic objects, such as buttons and dials, but also supports the combined use of complex objects, such as multi-font text containing spreadsheets, drawings, equations, and even animations. The architecture of ATK advances the state-of-the-art of user interface toolkits with its innovative separation of presentation and state, uniform data stream representation, arbitrary composition of objects, window system independence and the ability to add new objects dynamically. The Andrew Message System (AMS) provides an easy-to-use, multi-media mail and bulletin board system. It can be used to send and receive mail and bulletin board posts that contain embedded objects, such as spreadsheets or images. Through the use of distributed servers, and multiple interfaces that use the same underlying delivery and storage system, AMS can collect, integrate and manage messages from a variety of sources, and can deliver messages to high-function workstations as well as to low-function personal computers. AMS provides a variety of value-added capabilities to electronic mail systems such as authentication, return receipts, automatic sorting of mail, vote collection and tabulation, enclosures, audit trails of related messages, and subscription management. Currently, the system supports over 1,700 bulletin boards containing 10 gigabytes of information; a new bulletin board post arrives every 20 seconds. The Andrew File System (AFS) is a distributed computing network developed to be the primary campus file system for Carnegie Mellon. The principal AFS installation at Carnegie Mellon supports more than 8,000 accounts and nearly 1,000 workstations and personal computers. The system transparently supports distributed, replicated data to enhance reliability and performance. AFS is evolving into a system capable of linking tens of thousands of computers connected by moderate bandwidth networks. The enhanced system permits independent and geographically distant organizations to share files while still permitting them to administer their data autonomously. To obtain a copy of the Andrew System software... The Andrew System software is comprised of several components, all of which currently run at CMU on IBM PC-RT's, Sun3's and MicroVax's, and which have been ported elsewhere to other platforms. Primarily, these components consist of: ATK - the Andrew Toolkit and related application programs AMS - the Andrew Message System AFS - the Andrew File System Various combinations of these components are available through several different sources, described below. ATK and AMS The Andrew Toolkit and the Andrew Message System (minus the delivery system and white pages) can be obtained in several ways. From the Internet, this software can be obtained via anonymous ftp from host, expo.lcs.mit.edu (Internet: 18.30.0.212). Look for the Andrew software in the pub/R3 directory. Copies of this software can also be obtained, for the nominal X11 shipping charge, by contacting: Karen Kramaric MIT Software Distribution Center E 32 - 300 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 USA (617) 253 - 6966 Ask for the X.V11R3 tape with the Contributed software and then look for the Andrew software in the contrib/toolkits/andrew directory. This software can also be purchased from IBM as part of "IBM/4.3 for the IBM RT System," PRPQ 5799-WZQ, or "IBM/4.3 for the IBM 6152 Academic System," PRPQ 5799-PFF. Contact your local IBM representative for ordering information. For general information, call the Advanced Computing Support Center (ACSC) at 1-800-642-2272 (1-800-443-2272 in California). AFS The Andrew File System software can also be purchased from IBM as part of "IBM/4.3 for the IBM RT System," PRPQ 5799-WZQ, or "IBM/4.3 for the IBM 6152 Academic System," PRPQ 5799-PFF. Contact your local IBM representative for ordering information or call the Advanced Computing Support Center (ACSC) at 1-800-642-2272 (1-800-443-2272 in California). Management and distribution of future versions of AFS is now handled by Transarc, a Pittsburgh-based company specializing in distributed file systems. For further information on AFS, call Transarc, Inc., at 1-412-338-4400. For other information Send mail to info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu to be added to the Andrew mailing list. The info-andrew unmoderated distribution list contains informal conversations between Andrew users and developers. The info-andrew-bugs distribution list provides an easy method for reporting bugs in the software. When you subscribe to either of these lists, you should mention whether or not you wish to receive the messages in Andrew multi-media format; you can receive them either that way or "stripped" to standard ASCII. There is also a netnews distribution list, called comp.soft-sys.andrew, which is identical to the info-andrew distribution list except that it does not support the multi-media capabilities of info-andrew. Finally, there is an andrew-demos mailing list to which interesting ATK/Messages demos are sometimes posted. (You must have AMS running to see the demos -- there is no "stripped" version of the andrew-demos list.). To subscribe, send mail to andrew-demos-request@andrew.cmu.edu. Please send your Andrew questions as personal mail to the Andrew developers ONLY as a last resort; you will in general get faster and better response and make the developers feel less overwhelmed if you use the mailing list mechanisms that have been established for such purposes.