Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment
James H. Morris, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Michael H. Conner, John Harrison Howard, David S. H. Rosenthal, F. Donelson Smith · Communications of the ACM · 1986
The Information Technology Center (ITC), a collaborative effort between IBM and Carnegie-Mellon University, is in the process of creating Andrew, a prototype computing and communication system for universities. This article traces the origins of Andrew, discusses its goals and strategies, and gives an overview of the current status of its implementation and usage.