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The ''Information Technology Center'' was a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University and IBM to develop and deploy a distributed computing environment on the Carnegie Mellon campus. In its initial phase it involved both software and hardware, including wiring the campus for data and developing workstations to be distributed to students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and elsewhere. The proposed "3M" workstations included a million pixel display and a megabyte of memory, running at a million instructions per second. At the time an unfortunate fourth M, cost on the order of a megapenny, was beyond the reach of students' budgets, so the initial hardware deployment in 1985 established a number of university-owned "clusters" of public workstations in various academic buildings and dormatories. The campus was fully wired and ready for the eventual availability of inexpensive personal computers. Early software development within the Information Technology Center was organized into centralized tools (primarily a file server) and workstation tools (a window manager, editor, email, and file system client code), called "Vice" (Vast Integrated Computing Environment) and "Virtue" (Virtue Is Reached Through Unix and Emacs) respectively. The project was extended several times after 1985 in order to complete the software, and was renamed "Andrew" for Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon, the founders of the institutions that eventually became Carnegie Mellon University. Mostly rewritten as a result of experience from early deployments, Andrew had four major software components:
AFS moved out of the Information Technology Center to Transarc in 1988. THE ANDREW USER INTERFACE SYSTEM After IBM's funding ended, Andrew continued as an open source project named the Andrew User Interface System. AUIS is a set of tools that allows users to create and distribute documents containing a variety of formatted and Embedded Objects . It is an open-source project run at the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University . The Andrew Consortium governs and maintains the development and distribution of the Andrew User Interface System. The Andrew User Interface System encompasses three primary components. The Andrew User Environment (AUE) contains the main editor, help system, user interface, and tools for rendering multimedia and embedded Objects . The '''Andrew Toolkit (ATK)''' contains all of the formattable and embeddable objects, and allows a method for developers to design their own objects. ATK allows for multi-level object embedding, in which objects can be embedded in one another. For example, we can embed a Raster Image object into a spreadsheet object. The '''Andrew Message System (AMS)''' provides a mail and bulletin board access, which allows the user to send, receive, and organize mail as well as post and read from message boards. Components of AUIS As of version 6.3, the following are all components of AUIS: Applications
Graphical and Interactive Editors
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