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Article #1080Re: Survey of distributed OSs and FSs
From: B.J.
Date: Tue, 06 May 1986 14:54
Date: Tue, 06 May 1986 14:54
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> One of the questions I'm trying to find out is what sort of
> "real" distributed processing each system provides. Thus, I was
> recently at a DEC show where they proudly demonstrated their
> world-wide "distributed system". After a while, I became very
> much aware that all I had seen was remote logins, followed by
> some programs that only accessed local data. No distributed file
> access, much less remote execution.
You must have been shown a weak demonstration of DECnet.
It is possible to specify a remote file name almost anywhere
a file name is allowed. Most file operations can be performed
remotely, and programs can handle remote file specifications
without special processing.
B.J.
Herbison%Ultra@decwrl.DEC.COM
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!caip!lll-crg!lll-lcc!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-ultra!herbison From: herbison@ultra.DEC (B.J.) Newsgroups: net.lan Subject: Re: Survey of distributed OSs and FSs Message-ID: <2793@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 6-May-86 10:54:34 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2793 Posted: Tue May 6 10:54:34 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 08:37:25 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 17