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Article #73Re: Why no "real" distributed systems?
From: darrell
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1987 01:54
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1987 01:54
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A very pleasant system which was 2/3 of a distributed system existed about 8 years ago on DEC-10's (TOPS-10 with extensive non-DEC modifications). It had: Transparent distributed file & peripheral system Transparent distributed accounting & privilege system It did not automatically load-balance, however, processes could be auto- matically spawned on other CPUs (including machine-code-incompatible PDP11's). This was NOT DECnet - ISCnet predated DECnet and to the end had considerably more functionality as a moderately tightly coupled system. This was implemented by a small company (Interactive Sciences Corp., Braintree, MA) with an average of five programmers over four years. Many features still equal to the best currently available. (I can bend your ear for hours :-) ) Geoff Steckel (steckel@alliant.UUCP)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!darrell From: darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.os Subject: Re: Why no "real" distributed systems? Message-ID: <2745@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Thu, 19-Feb-87 20:54:39 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2745 Posted: Thu Feb 19 20:54:39 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 22-Feb-87 03:21:03 EST Sender: darrell@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU Organization: Alliant Computer Systems, Littleton, MA Lines: 13 Approved: mod-os@sdcsvax.uucp