Editing Project Athena (section)

== Use outside MIT ==
* [[Pixar|Pixar Animation Studios]], the computer graphics and animation company (then the [[Lucasfilm]] Computer Graphics Project, now owned by Walt Disney Pictures), used ten [[VAX-11|VAX-11/750]] superminicomputers at ''Project Athena'', for some of the rendering of ''[[The Adventures of André and Wally B.]]''<ref name="google/books=c5WZDgAAQBAJ">{{cite book |last1=Amidi |first1=Amid |title=The Art of Pixar Short Films |date=16 May 2017 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-1-4521-6521-9 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5WZDgAAQBAJ&dq=Wally&pg=PA16 |access-date=18 November 2022 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="computerhistory/Animation-1984-1985">{{cite web |author1=[[The Computer Museum, Boston]] |title=Computer Animation Theater 1984-1985 |url=https://tcm.computerhistory.org/CHMfiles/Computer%20Animation%20Theater%201984-1985.pdf |website=[[Computer History Museum]] |access-date=18 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Iowa State University]] runs an implementation of Athena named "Project Vincent", named after [[John Vincent Atanasoff]], the inventor of the [[Atanasoff–Berry Computer]].{{r|digitalnews19920120_decathena}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.public.iastate.edu/~isu150/history/timeline-1975.html|title=Iowa State University Time Line, 1925-1949|work=iastate.edu}}</ref>
* [[North Carolina State University]] also runs a variation of Athena named "Eos/Unity".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/eos-defined.php|title=More About Eos, Engineering Computing|work=ncsu.edu|access-date=2013-01-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604145156/http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/eos-defined.php|archive-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>
* [[Carnegie Mellon University]] began a similar system a year earlier than MIT called [[Andrew Project|Project Andrew]] which spawned [[Andrew File System|AFS]], Athena's current filesystem.
* [[University of Maryland, College Park]] also ran a variation of Athena on the WAM (Workstations at Maryland) and Glue,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~davida/training/unix-troubleshooting.html#intro|title=General UNIX Troubleshooting Information|work=umd.edu}}</ref> now renamed '"TerpConnect".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://umd.service-now.com/itsupport/topics/accounts/student/glue/|title=ITSC Service Portal - UMD support center|website=umd.service-now.com}}</ref>