Amazing that people have such problems with the concept of Instant messaging. The MIT system did not have a buddy system linked to personal awareness status that could be moved from computer account to computer account. IT WAS NOT IM!
Quentin
ermmm....I started using Zephyr @ MIT when I arrived here for my Masters in Fall of 1997. It allowed me to stay in touch with all of my school "buddies" on the network on "any" machine on which I was logged onto (both private and public). I could see who was online and who was not, it announced when users of interest logged on etc. I started using ICQ in the Summer of 1998 and saw it as Zephyr on Steroids living in the Windows Internet World. It became a great way for me to stay in touch with my non-Unix buddies and my Mom! (later on my Mom sending me IM's in the middle of presentations). I frankly did not see much difference between what Zephyr could do on Project Athena@MIT and ICQ for Windows. Best, K =============================================== Karim R. Lakhani MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Free/Open Source Software Research Project e-mail: lakhani@mit.edu voice: 617-851-1224 fax: 617-344-0403 http://opensource.mit.edu http://freesoftware.mit.edu http://mit.edu/lakhani/www ==============================================