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The Uniform Resource Locator for this document is:
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http://tardis.ed.ac.uk/tardisinfo.html
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Information about the Tardis Public-Access Service
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Tardis is a public-access UNIX service. The Tardis project provides free networked
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UNIX accounts for educational and non-commercial purposes. We are kindly hosted by
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the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. However, the
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Tardis project is independent of the department and is run by a group of volunteers.
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The service is run along the lines stated in our charter.
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The original Tardis service was provided by a GEC-63/30, which had previously
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provided a service managed by the Edunburgh University Computing Service which has
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since been discontinued. It was "liberated" by Brian Tompsett and given a new home
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as the basis of a free UNIX service for anyone who wanted it. In its new life as
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Tardis, it came on-line on August 15, 1988. That Tardis service continued for three
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years (to the day), until it was withdrawn due to the increasing pressure of its
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size, air conditioning and power requirements. (A GEC-63 is a pretty big and hungry
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beast.)
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The new Tardis service is based around Sun-3 equipment which has, like the original
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machine, been donated free-of-charge by various groups as it has become surplus to
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their own requirements. We have more CPUs and disks available to us and will use
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them to increase and expand the Tardis service over time.
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jpd, January 14, 1994.
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