jrn@dcl-cs.UUCP (John R Nicol) (06/12/85)
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.
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Project:COSMOS Distributed Operating System | LA1 4YRjmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg) (06/12/85)
In article <229@dcl-cs.UUCP> jrn@dcl-cs.UUCP (John R Nicol) writes: > > 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?
spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) (06/13/85)
In article <229@dcl-cs.UUCP> jrn@dcl-cs.UUCP (John R Nicol) writes: > > 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. The Clouds project is addressing some of the same goals (and more). We would be interested in communicating with others about this field of study, but I don't think it would require a separate newsgroup. This kind of thing should fit within net.research (which isn't used much), or we can do it by setting up a mailing list. If there is a lot of sustained traffic, then we can create a new newsgroup. Lets establish a definite need first. -- Gene "3 months and holding" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf
reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (06/19/85)
In article <294@gatech.CSNET> spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) writes: >In article <229@dcl-cs.UUCP> jrn@dcl-cs.UUCP (John R Nicol) writes: >> >> 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. ... >> 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? > >We would be interested in communicating with others about this field >of study, but I don't think it would require a separate newsgroup. >This kind of thing should fit within net.research (which isn't used >much), or we can do it by setting up a mailing list. > >If there is a lot of sustained traffic, then we can create a >new newsgroup. Lets establish a definite need first. I think that those of us at UCLA involved in the Locus project would be very interested in hearing about other research in distributed operating systems, and would like to discuss important issues we've come up against. I agree with Gene that net.research is a good place to start. If I get around to it, I'll try to post a brief description of what we've done and what we're planning on doing to net.research soon. -- Peter Reiher reiher@ucla-cs.arpa soon to be reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher