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From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Distributed Amiga processing. Is it possible?
Message-ID: <260c33a7:6164.1comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 90 03:01:22 GMT
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>Item: 6164 by *Masked* at ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
>Author: [Lou Cavallo]
>  Subj: Distributed Amiga processing. Is it possible?


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

ANSWER:

1) Depends.
2) YES.

>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?

Hmm.. actually , I can envision a hack on the NET: interface and some work
with AREXX...

"run @machine1 lc foo.bar"

hmm.....

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