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From: herbison@ultra.DEC (B.J.)
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Subject: Re: Survey of distributed OSs and FSs
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Date: Tue, 6-May-86 10:54:34 EDT
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> One of the questions I'm trying to  find  out  is  what  sort  of
> "real"  distributed processing each system provides.  Thus, I was
> recently at a DEC show  where  they  proudly  demonstrated  their
> world-wide  "distributed  system".   After a while, I became very
> much aware that all I had seen was  remote  logins,  followed  by
> some programs that only accessed local data.  No distributed file
> access, much less remote execution.

        You must have been shown a weak demonstration of DECnet.
        It is possible to specify a remote file name almost anywhere
        a file name is allowed.  Most file operations can be performed
        remotely, and programs can handle remote file specifications
        without special processing. 

        					B.J.
        				Herbison%Ultra@decwrl.DEC.COM