Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!shelby!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Re: AST Bigger name than I thought Message-ID: Date: 21 Oct 90 05:49:54 GMT References: <34081@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Lines: 31 [In article <34081@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, KPURCELL@liverpool.ac.uk (Kevin Purcell) writes ... ] > On Thu, 18 Oct 90 21:03:41 GMT Eric Horst (erich@EDU.WASHINGTON.U.MILTON) said: > >>I have heard of Ameoba but didn't know it was anything >>big until I saw numerous quotes from AST and a description of >>distributed OS in the New York Times 2 days ago.... > > Would somebody care to say more about this (e.g. quote the article). Not all > of us get the NYT :-) (Is this relevant to minix I ask myself). I don't get the NYT either, but we get the news service at work (I'm an editor). AST wasn't the focus, but he was one of the more eloquent sources quoted in the story. It was a layman's introduction to the concept of networked multiprocessing, and Amoeba was one of the examples. I can't quote it -- I don't save everything I read, or I'd drown in it -- but I recall that it was a very nicely written story on a potentially daunting subject. Multiprocessing is not the sort of thing that most people want to read about while going to work on the subway, but this article made it interesting. I think John Markoff wrote it. Judging from his reporting in the last year or so, I get the impression that he's on the net, but I have no idea what his address might be. -- Steve Yelvington up at the lake in Minnesota The easy way: steve@thelake.mn.org The hard way: {plains,rutgers,apple,cray}!umn-cs!thelake!steve