From: Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 01/11/93


From: mbeattie@black.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Subject: Re: It's installed, now what?  (was Re: A flight of marketing fancy)
Date: 11 Jan 1993 10:55:39 GMT

In article <C0JK4G.HIH@jti.com> richb@jti.com (Richard Braun) writes:
>
>I think this approach is limiting. It has led to such monumental
>efforts as MIT Project Athena which have produced far fewer spinoffs
>than were originally intended. (How many people here know that X
>Window is *not* an Athena spinoff? Or that the Athena environment
>still runs in exactly one place--the MIT campus?)

I'd just like to correct this point. There is a pilot Athena
project here at Oxford and also at Cardiff, Essex and a number
of other places in the U.K.

--Malcolm

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