Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!dawn!stpeters
From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS, UNIX, etc.
Message-ID: <10012@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 22:38:45 GMT
References: <397@lscvax.UUCP> <10157@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <3718@killer.UUCP> <10168@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
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Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: Locus
Summary: Is Locus now single-

In article <10168@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell@hector (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>Well, IBM just announced a few days ago AIX (Unix) for a variety of
>their hardware: 3090s, 4381s, 9370s and PS/2-386s. AIX includes the
>so-called Transparent Computing Facility (TCF), which is really Locus
>(distributed, transparent processing, process migration, etc.).

So that's what happened to Locus?  Swallowed by IBM.  Now that it's
emerging again, will it still run different vendor's machines?  Or is
it now an IBM-only system?
--
Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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