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Of those 39,800 people mentioned above, over 10,700 of them logged in from the clusters. The rest used Athena Quickstations, the Athena Dialup (remote access) servers, and over 10,400 used Athena Workstations located in their office, lab, department, or dorm room.

How much does Athena cost to develop and support?

There are no full-time staff devoted solely to Athena Development. Development is driven largely by the Student Information Processing Board, a student group whose members work on Athena on a volunteer basis.

How much does Athena cost to support?

User support for Athena is provided by 80% of one full-time staff member's time, in addition to student support. By contrast, approximately 40 full time staff members are required to support general-purpose Mac, PC and Mobile Device computing at MIT.