Computing at Carnegie-Mellon University
Keith Slack, Jim Morris, Douglas Van Houweling, Nina Wishbow · 1984
Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) and International Business Machines (IBM) have recently decided to collaborate on an innovative project: to implement a distributed computing system at CMU. A distributed computing system integrates personal computers, midsized machines known as file servers, and mainframes through a network. This system will provide CMU's students, faculty and staff with state-of-the-art equipment and software, and will be designed to facilitate communication on campus. The authors describe the reasons that motivated the CMU-IBM project, the technology of this distributed system, and the impact they expect this system to have.