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From: darrell@sdcsvax.UUCP
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Subject: SIGOPS workshop report
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Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 14:05:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 14:05:04 1987
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The January 1987 issue of Operating Systems Review carried a report on
the Second European SIGOPS Workshop "Making Distributed Systems Work."
I found the report very interesting and would recommend it to anyone
working on distributed systems, particularly distributed operating
systems.

Two questions raised during the workshop deserve wider discussion:

1. There seems to be a division of SIGOPS "insiders" and "outsiders."
   Some insiders want to bring in "outsiders" (for ex. Dave Clark) to
   SIGOPS functions.  I wonder if the readers of mod.os share this
   perception of SIGOPS isolation.

2. The existence of "really distributed applications" was questioned
   several times.  If you have a distributed (operating) system, what
   do you run on it?

		-Calton-