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Re: New group request (Distributed Operating Systems).

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From: jmg
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1985 14:34
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In article <229@dcl-cs.UUCP> jrn@dcl-cs.UUCP (John R Nicol) writes:
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>    I am a member of a distributed operating systems research group based at
>Lancaster University, U.K.  Since October 1983, the group has been designing
>a distributed operating system called COSMOS.
>    COSMOS exhibits a high degree of logical coupling and is designed to 
>operate in a lan (local area network) based environment.
>    Would any other research workers/teams in the same field be interested
>in setting up a new group (e.g. net.research.opsys) through which we would
>be able to cooperate with each other by the mutual sharing of research 
>experience etc? If so, we would be happy to hear from you.

A very unfortunate choice of name. The Norsk Data equivalent of DECNET is
called COSMOS, and has been so for a long time. It will shortly be available
on top of Ethernet, so they tell me (you can sing that last phrase if you
know the song).
Is it too late to change names?
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From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
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Subject: Re: New group request (Distributed Operating Systems).
Message-ID: <172@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 10:34:44 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 12 10:34:44 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 06:36:14 EDT
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