WHAT IS LAYERED ATHENA?

Layered Athena offers you a way to select those Athena programs you want
for your private workstation without requiring that you replace your
operating system, and without requiring that you take all of the Athena
programs. (In the past, to have Athena functionality, you needed to have
the Athena version of the base operating system installed on your
machine instead of the native operating system, and you had to take all
of Athena, not parts.)

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?

Participants in the beta test will get better initial support than those
who use Layered Athena after the beta test.  Beta testers will get early
access to software that gives users read/write access to Athena lockers
as well as the rest of AFS, and to other Athena services such as Zephyr.

WHAT ARE THE DRAWBACKS?

The kind of support to which Athena users are accustomed will not be
available.  OLC does not support Layered Athena for HP's.  Not all
Athena software has been ported to the HP.

WHO MAY PARTICIPATE IN THE BETA TEST?

Any member of the MIT community who is in charge of a MITnet-connected
HP Series 700 workstation running HP/UX 9.0 may participate in the beta
test.  To keep the size of the test manageable, there will be an upper
limit of 10 sites.  This may be raised if things go smoothly during the
first month of beta test.

If you would like to participate or want more information, send email to
brlewis@MIT.EDU (Bruce Lewis).