Welcome to

the Fall 1997 "Unix and Communications" classes

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These classes will help you communicate with, and use the basic features of, a computer running the Unix operating system--such as the Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstations in the Art Computer Graphics Lab.

Unix, now in continuous development and use for over a quarter of a century, is vitally important to computer artists for at least two reasons:

• It was at the center of the evolving Internet, and its interface and protocols influence the way Web content is created and deployed.
• It is the most scalable operating system, equally effective on desktop workstations and time-sharing supercomputers. As such, it provides entry to mid- and high-end computer graphics equipment.

After these lectures, the ACG150 students will be able to go on to use the ElectroGIG 3DGO 3d animation software on the SGIs. ACG164 students will post Web multimedia to the Netscape Enterprise Server running on the same workstations.

For additional information, consult these pages:

• Outline of Computer Communications.
• General Unix Info.
• UNIXhelp for Users, developed at the University of Edinburgh.