| 1 | Welcome to Athena |
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| 4 | - Project Athena was an eight-year experiment (1983-1991) to explore the use |
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| 5 | of computers in university educational programs. The Project focused on |
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| 6 | developing computers as useful tools, rather than as objects of study, in |
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| 7 | the education of students at MIT. |
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| 9 | - The Athena system, one of the fruits of Project Athena, is a campus-wide |
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| 10 | distributed computer service consisting of hundreds of networked |
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| 11 | workstations and related facilities (such as printers and file servers) |
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| 12 | available to MIT students and faculty to help them achieve their academic |
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| 13 | goals and learn about computers while at the Institute. |
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| 15 | - For help about any aspect of Athena, type: help followed by a carriage |
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| 16 | return. This starts a web browser displaying the home page of the On-Line |
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| 17 | Help system (OLH), which helps you find information about many Athena |
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| 18 | topics. (If a topic is not described in detail, OLH usually provides |
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| 19 | information on where to find out more about the topic.) OLH includes: |
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| 21 | - guides to all aspects of the supported Athena environment, including |
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| 22 | how to get an account, how to login and logout, how to work with the |
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| 23 | UNIX operating system, and how to use some of the most popular |
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| 24 | software on Athena (including software that can help you use Athena |
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| 25 | to write papers or analyze data) |
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| 27 | - up-to-date status information on the Athena system, available Athena |
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| 28 | minicourses, and other current events at Athena |
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| 30 | - consultants' stock answers to commonly asked questions about Athena |
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| 31 | |
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| 32 | - a complete set of standard UNIX reference modules ("man pages") |
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| 34 | - If you have trouble, you can contact an Athena User Consultant. To get a |
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| 35 | consultant on-line, just type: olc followed by a carriage return. To |
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| 36 | talk to a consultant in person, call X3-4435 (if there is no consultant on |
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| 37 | duty, you will get a recording informing you of the consulting schedule). |
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