DOSC TWiki snapshot as of mid-2005
The Northstar computers are a group of public unix machines available via AFS.
All "Northstar" machines have a full AFS Password File?, i.e. if you have a Northstar account you can log in to any of those machines. The "Central Servers?" (name?) are a group of research machines with restricted Northstar AFS password lists. for more information, see ResearchComputing.