Project Athena
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title:
Project Athena
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Project Athena was a joint project of MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, and IBM to produce a campus-wide distributed computing environment for educational use. It was launched in 1983, and research and development ran until June 30, 1991. As of 2023, Athena is still in production use at MIT. It works as software that makes a machine a thin client, that will download educational applications from the MIT servers on demand. Project Athena was important in the early history of desktop and distrib
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1983 joint project by MIT, IBM and DEC
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena
date created:
2004-01-30T01:05:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T14:31:04Z
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