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From: darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why no "real" distributed systems?
Message-ID: <2763@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 12:07:12 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 25 12:07:12 1987
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In article <2721@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP writes:
>[ In summary, when I asked "Why are  there  no  `real'  distributed ]
>[ systems?",  I  was  asking why aren't any commercially available? ]
>[ .... ]
>[ --DL  darrell@beowulf.ucsd.edu                                    ]

The LOCUS operating system appears to be a true distributed system, running
across heterogeneous cpu's. Unfortunately, it is also vaporware, as they
have not released it, and don't seem to be planning to any time real soon.

(To be fair, part of the problem seems to be that they want to track both
BSD and S5, and apparently by the time they get LOCUS up to compatibility
with one version of {BSD, S5}, {UCB, ATT} goes and releases the next one!
From what I understand, the initial version(s) of LOCUS were based on 4.1BSD.)

Non-flaming rebuttals from someone at LOCUS are welcome.
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Darrell Long
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