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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Distributed Amiga processing. Is it possible?
Message-ID: <595@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 24 Mar 90 09:03:02 GMT
Organization: I.A.E.S.R., Melbourne University
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G'day,

I'm not asking for help this time {I usually seem to :-)}. I'd like to ask a
(compound) question of the c.s.a readership. {Just for the kick of it! :-)}.

Does/should the Amiga OS have the potential/capability in future for distri-
buted processing?

By this I'm suggesting more than just networking. For example, is Amiga's OS
likely to be able to split up a job of work (say 3-D rendering of an object)
to be run concurrently on multiple Amigas?

Do I ask too much? Seriously that is.

{I debated whether I should post this to comp.sys.amiga.technical. I hope to
see some discussion of uses as well as the "fitness" of the existing AmigaOS
for this purpose. I would like comments from "application types" who may not
necessarily read that newsgroup.}

{For Randell Jesup (sorry if I misspell your name). Is it in there? :-) ...}

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.

P.S:: Andy Tanenbaum has just announced a new book for Amoeba, a distributed
systems OS which sounds quite exciting. This was a motivation for my asking.

Please note that I am not myself knowledgeable of the OS technical details.