Word: fas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began noticing small symptoms sometime Monday morning. Those symptoms worsened over the day and on Monday afternoon...Things were getting very slow," said Rick Osterberg '96, coordinator of residential computing services for FAS computer services...
Attempts to rectify a College-wide slowdown in e-mail service over recent days culminated last night in a total shutdown of the central FAS Unix system for repair work...
Franklin M. Steen, director of computing services for FAS, said the staffers were able to make most of their adjustments without shutting down the system. Though officials announced a suspension of Unix services, including e-mail, from midnight to 8:30 this morning, as of press time, the system had not been shut down...
According Steen, the amount of e-mail passing through the FAS mail system has virtually doubled every year in recent years...
...order to meet the needs of the nearly 15,000 students, Faculty and staff who have accounts on the FAS system, Steen said computer services made a number of significant upgrades to the Unix servers in the past year...