As of May 2000, owl.english.purdue.edu runs on an Apple Macintosh G4 server with 256M of memory running Appleshare IP 6.3 for web, mail, and file service. Our search engine is Phantom, a product of Maxum software . We use Filemaker Pro 5 to allow users to search the list of articles in the Writing Lab Newsletter. Our usage statistics are analyzed by Analog 3.0 . Our online tutoring service is done over email.
Tutors can access the account either from home or from the writing lab.
Our online tutoring coordinator is Justin Jackson. At the moment, we do not do synchronous tutorials or incorporate any forms of synchronous communication into the OWL website. Our World Wide Web server, our Gopher server, and our anonymous FTP server used to run an Apple Macintosh G3 Minitower. The World Wide Web server was powered by WebSTAR 3.0 . All rights reserved.