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Subject: Andrew Toolkit Consortium formed at Carnegie Mellon


Carnegie Mellon is pleased to announce formation of the Andrew Toolkit 
Consortium to continue development and support of the Andrew User Interface 
System, which includes the Andrew User Environment.   


AUIS consists of a set of preconstructed tools--the Andrew User Environment, 
the Andrew Toolkit (ATK), and the Andrew Message System (AMS) that allow a 
person to create, use, and mail multi-media applications and documents.   


\indent{The Andrew User Environment (AUE) is an integrated set of applications 
beginning with a 'generic object' editor, ez, a help system, a system 
monitoring tool (console), an editor-based shell interface (typescript), and 
support for printing multi-media documents. 


The Andrew Toolkit (ATK) is a portable user-interface toolkit that runs under 
X11. It provides a dynamically-loadable object-oriented environment wherein 
objects can be embedded in one-another. Thus, one could edit text that, in 
addition to containing multiple fonts, contains embedded raster images, 
spreadsheets, drawing editors, equations, simple animations, etc. These 
embedded objects could themselves contain other objects, including text. With 
the toolkit, programmers can create new objects that can be embedded as easily 
as those that come with the system. 


The Andrew Message System (AMS) provides a multi-media interface to mail and 
bulletin-boards.  AMS supports several mail management strategies and 
implements many advanced  features including authentication, return receipts, 
automatic sorting of mail, vote collection and tabulation, enclosures, audit 
trails of related messages, and subscription management. It also provides a 
variety of interfaces that support ttys and low-function personal computers in 
addition to the high-function workstations. }



The principal activity of the Andrew Consortium is to maintain 'the' central 
sources for AUIS.  Improvements and enhancments from many organizations are 
gathered together for redistribution;  frequently to members and more-or-less 
annually to others via the X Consortium distribution channel.  Programming 
support and consultation are available to full members.  The Consortium also 
organizes an annual technical meeting, publishes a newsletter, and maintains 
the info-andrew mailing list on the internet.


Organizations are invited to become members of the Consortium.  A variety of 
levels of membership are available ranging from nominal to fully supportive.


For more information, contact 


	Fred Hansen

	Director, Andrew Toolkit Consortium

	School of Computer Science

	Carnegie Mellon University

	Smith Hall 106 

	5000 Forbes Avenue

	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania  15213-3890


		phone: (412) 268-6788

		internet:  wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu

		bitnet:  wjh+%andrew.cmu.edu@carnegie


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