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DEFINITION - Andrew was a joint project between Carnegie-Mellon University and IBM to set up a distributed computing environment on the CMU campus. It was designed to serve 4,000 UNIX workstations. The project was named for Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon. One result of Andrew was the Andrew file system.

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