I just *had* to comment.

[Derek Atkins]

dsr at tao.merseine.nu writes:

> Excuse me, but only people from MIT think that the Athena-style
> environment is anything but a special case... and AFAIK, no one
> who didn't "grow up" in MIT has ever re-implemented it outside.

CMU, ISU, NCSU all use something like it.  I've seen similar but
different examples at labs at UFL, ASU, UMich, OSU, and a bunch of
other universities.  And, as I mentioned, there is at least one large
financial institution in NYC (I cannot provide the name due to NDA).

> Counterexamples welcome.

I had already given one, but you clearly ignored it.  I've now
provided more.

> -dsr-

-derek

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