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From: gl8f@astsun7.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: Multics - Whats the current status?
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Date: 4 Sep 90 18:54:06 GMT
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In article <6579@darkstar.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.UUCP (Jim Haynes) writes:

> But there's no future in
>building humongous machines to be time-shared among many users as a
>way of getting the cost of computing down.

But there is a future in building humongous distributed machines to be
time-shared among many users. See Plan 9 and Amoeba. You don't have
stick a fast CPU on every desk when it won't be used most of the time
and will have awful disk I/O when it is used.

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"Perhaps I'm commenting a bit cynically, but I think I'm qualified to."
                                              - Dan Bernstein