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From: karish@denali.UUCP (karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS, UNIX, etc.
Message-ID: <24@denali.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 03:48:08 GMT
References: <397@lscvax.UUCP> <10157@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <3718@killer.UUCP> <10168@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <10012@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Reply-To: crkarish@stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
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Keywords: Locus TCF

In article <10012@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters) writes:
>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?
>--
I went to an IBM presentation for this software on Friday, March 18,
in Palo Alto.  The IBM representative (Alex Rosen) indicated that
IBM would leave the door open to providing source if the circumstances
warrant, so that other vendors can provide TCF ports.  Some of his
foils showed hosts labeled 'OEM' connected to the TCF network. He said
that IBM would like to see TCF and Distributed Services become industry
standard utilities.

Chuck

Disclaimer:  No opinions are expressed in this posting.