endrizzi@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Michael J. Endrizzi) (12/15/89)
Hello people. i am looking for the latest and greatest for Multics/Mach type Object Management for DOS. Reference or proceedings will do. The question I am asking in my mind is 2 processes can communicate over shared memory on a single machine, what is preventing them from sharing memory TRANSPARENTLY on a distributed machine. A couple of answers floating around in my mind is that networks have no conept of Read Modify Write cycles, MMU does not make referenced location visible outside of local machine so OS's are forced to write through caches with page boundaries. In the end a user cannot just simply reference a specified memory address that is shared acros machines. The user is forced to perform some sort of SEND or RECEIVE. Thanks, Dreez "Look at me when I talk to you"