kim@wacsvax.OZ (Kim Shearer) (03/26/90)
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes: > More or less. All resources can be allocated > to a job, including cpu, memory, files, disk > drives, modems, etc. The difference is that > you can tell (until the new version this > year perhaps) where the resource lives, but > you treat it locally (except for diskette > drives - inserting a diskette halfway across > a continent is a bit inconvenient 8^). One can > get an executable from one machine, execute > it on another, and have the screen/kybd i/o > sent to your own machine - all simple to do, > built in to the system. The name space isn't Umm, you can rcp files between machines on any unix network, and is there not also a remote execute command ? The point is that the OS should do this sort of thing IN A TRANSPERENT MANNER, ie without the user ever knowing about it, to be truely distributed. I think this is what Andy Tannenbaun is talking about, I do not know if this is what you meant, I may have misinterprited what you wrote. +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+ Kim Shearer | ARPA: kim%wacsvax.uwa.oz@uunet.uu.net Dept. of Computer Science | UUCP: ..!uunet!munnari!wacsvax!kim University of Western Australia | ACSnet: kim@wacsvax.uwa.oz CRAWLEY, Australia 6009 | PHONE: +61 9 380 3452 +--------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+
pclark@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Peter Clark) (03/13/91)
>These papers are now available for anonymous ftp from ftp.diku.dk >[129.142.96.1] in /pub/misc/amoeba-doc.tar.Z They'll also be on math.macalstr.edu within 1/2 hour. If Minnesota is closer to you than Denmark, try that site first. The people on the other side of the pond will thank you. Pete Clark