This document outlines the functional requirements for integrating personal systems into the Andrew II environment. Personal Systems traditionally have been PCs or Macintoshes. These machines can run a rich suite of commercial software products and are heavily used on campus and in industry.
Personal systems run stand-alone and offer users enough power and capability to do their tasks.
Personal systems that require network access will generally do so for the value added services that the network provides. Please refer to Section 3.2, Design Constraints , for the list of supported hardware, operating systems, and software. The Andrew II environment as a whole will be based on the Open Software Foundation's Distributed Computing Environment. The purpose of this project is to provide the users of personal systems with an integrated computing environment. The rest of this document is divided into two sections.