Nyx provides public access to the Internet and the Unix environment,
and all this entails, such as:
Internet access
. There are many other systems that have files you
can grab (via "ftp"), creating an effective download area of many
Terabytes.
World Wide Web access
with the text browser "Lynx" and your
own webspace.
Usenet news
. A bulletin board with messages in over 30,000
categories, shared by a network of millions of machines around the world, with
millions of
readers.
Email
. Send and Receive electronic mail to folks around the
globe.
Complete access to a multi-tasking operating system
. Feel free to
engage in text processing, programming, game playing, or other recreational
activities.
Nyx, Nox, and Noc at DU
Iris (news) and Erebus (administrative) in Boulder
The Portmaster was donated to us by Livingston at the urging of Paul Gregg. The
logo
on the front was modified by Chris Cypser from Ron Carter's version.
The system itself is on two Sun SparcServer 2's (nyx & noc), a Sun
SparcServer 1+ (arachne), a SparcServer 10 (nyx10 or nox) and the new 586
(iris). All
machines were entirely paid for by user donations. The Suns were purchased as
the result
of fund drives while Nyx was still part of the University of Denver Math &
Computer
Science Department and the 586 was added a few months after the network left the
University in the fall of 1997. Nyx has 32 Mb of primary memory and about 1.5
gigabyte of
disk space, and runs SunOS 4.1.4. Nyx10 has 32Mb RAM and 5Gb disk and runs
SunOS 4.1.3
(soon to be upgraded). The modems are connected to two Annex terminal servers,
all of
which were also purchased via donations. All this is maintained by an
administrative
staff of volunteers including,
Paul Gregg
, System
Administrator;
Elie Rosenblum
, Mail Administrator;
and
Terry Knab
, News Administrator.
Donations of equipment or time are welcomed and will be acknowledged in our
special '
Thanks
' page.
Send mail to
webmaster@nyx.net
with questions or comments about
this web site.
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