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From: velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix
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Date: 16 Mar 90 05:19:55 GMT
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schaut@cat9.cs.wisc.edu (Rick Schaut) writes:
>Well, give me a for-instance.

>One interesting development within the department here at UW is that large
>multi-user machines are being replaced by networked workstations with
>distributed processing facilities.  Where in such an environment do I need
>multi-user capabilities?

In a "truely" distributed system, when you logged onto your workstation, you
would not know which workstation's cpu was taking care of you.  Your jobs would
be loaded onto whichever workstation had the lightest load.  The whole network
would act as a single, multiprocessor, multitasking, multiuser system.  This is
one of the goals of distributed systems research.


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