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From: kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Amoeba Availability for Minix?
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.133523.45833@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 13:29:23 GMT
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What's this rumor that Amoeba is being ported?  I've references to it twice
today, and it's got me REAL curious.
  I thought that Amoeba was a generic distributed processing-type environment. 
Does this mean that, (assuming we can hook 'em together), several different
makes of computers...(Mac,Atari,Amiga,Mess-Dos)...could share in computational
tasks on a large scale?  Is the code transportable?  (Is it available at all?
grin)
  I've ftped the papers Andy, I'll be getting the book on it today.  This
sounds (so far) like a Good Thing.  I'm wondering...what are the prices of each
of the nodes on your test setup?  (More specifically, would it be feasible with
mondo-cheap processors?  Got to start thinking of good projects...directed
studies are *also* Good Things.)  Heck, for that matter, would cheap processors
be worth putting together, or are higher-power processors required?  (I'm
thinking 6502/8086/possibly 68000.
  What kind of resource drain would this put on a system?  Think it'd be
possible to run this at 115K baud, or does it just _demand_ ethernet?

| Ken Corey  aka... kenc@vaxb.acs.unt.edu                        |
|  "We MUST succeed, otherwise we run the risk of failure...."   |
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