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From: geordie@ritcsh.UUCP (Geordie 'Gweeb' Klueber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix on a VAXCluster ??
Message-ID: <1209@ritcsh.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 07:21:39 GMT
References: <985@luth.luth.se> <2902@pitt.UUCP>
Reply-To: geordie@ritcsh.UUCP (Geordie 'Gweeb' Klueber)
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In article <2902@pitt.UUCP> jonathan@vax.cs.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
>In article <985@luth.luth.se> roland@sm.luth.se (Roland Hedberg) writes:
>>is it possible to run Unix on a Vax cluster?
>
>NO.   A VaxCluster is a confederation of Vax machines sharing common
>resources.  It is implemented as an extension to VMS, plus some
>connecting hardware.  It is not portable to other operating systems.

	The Ultrix team at DEC is working on this and I'm told that
	we may see Ultrix Clustering (through the use of NFS as a start)
	by this summer.

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