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Started by darrell
Wed, 25 Feb 1987 17:07
Re: Why no "real" distributed systems?
Author: darrell
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1987 17:07
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1987 17:07
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In article <2721@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP writes:
>[ In summary, when I asked "Why are there no `real' distributed ]
>[ systems?", I was asking why aren't any commercially available? ]
>[ .... ]
>[ --DL darrell@beowulf.ucsd.edu ]
The LOCUS operating system appears to be a true distributed system, running
across heterogeneous cpu's. Unfortunately, it is also vaporware, as they
have not released it, and don't seem to be planning to any time real soon.
(To be fair, part of the problem seems to be that they want to track both
BSD and S5, and apparently by the time they get LOCUS up to compatibility
with one version of {BSD, S5}, {UCB, ATT} goes and releases the next one!
From what I understand, the initial version(s) of LOCUS were based on 4.1BSD.)
Non-flaming rebuttals from someone at LOCUS are welcome.
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Arnold Robbins
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--
Darrell Long
Department of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093
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