The Computing Service Department at the University of Edinburgh has a beta test HyperText Transport Protocol Server and Gopher Servers to run under Microsoft Corp’s Windows NT. The HyperText server provides the back-end en-gine needed to set up a World-Wide Web service. Edinburgh’s Chris Adie says that an NT-based Wide Area Information Server engine will follow next month. The servers both come in iAPX-86 and Alpha RISC binary versions. They were produced as part of the European Microsoft Windows NT Academic Centre, funded by Datalink Computers Ltd, Digital Equipment Corp, Microsoft Corp, Research Machines Plc, Sequent Computer Systems Corp and the University of Edinburgh. While there is already a Hypertext engine available for Windows 3.1, the Edinburgh team says the native NT version runs substantially faster, as well as taking advantage of various NT capabilities.
