dfh@ecsvax.UUCP (David Hinnant) (09/21/87)
Not to be too vague, but I read somewhere (possibly ACM Communications, possibly IEEE transactions, possibly not) about 6 months ago (more or less) of some research done somewhere (possibly UC-Berkeley) with a network of Sun workstations where the C shell was hacked to do initial process placement across a network. For example, if my machine was busy to run my nroff job, the C shell would poke around over the network to see who was less busy and try to farm out the task there. Of course, I may have been imagining this since I obviously don't remember a whole lot of the details. Any pointers to this paper are appreciated. -- Fortune for the day: "Beware a no problems in your disk subsystem" David Hinnant UUCP: ...mcnc!ecsvax!dfh SCI Systems, Inc. (919) 549-8334