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From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (SBCS Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An alternative IPC system
Message-ID: <1135@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 12 Apr 88 22:10:41 GMT
References: <2783@crash.cts.com> <12379@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Summary: Cheriton V Kernel

In article <12379@orchid.waterloo.edu>, kgschlueter@orchid.waterloo.edu (Kevin Schlueter) writes:
> Just a quick note about this IPC discussion.  Has anyone read about
> the V kernel, being developed at Stanford by Cheriton et al?  Basically,

	Yes!  Would've been a nice starting point for AmigaDOS..

> the project involves setting up a distributed system consisting of Sun
> workstations (at least that's what they were using in the article I read --
> there was some mention of including VAXES).  It would seem that we could
> at least borrow the primitives from the V kernel.  Perhaps we might
> want to borrow the server philosophy as well.  In any case, I think
> that we could avoid alot of mistakes by reading about it.

	And you probably would want to import Cheritons new VMTP
	network protocol too.  At least that's what I going to do
	in the next release of Ameristar's network code.  Nice thing
	about VMTP is that it is a freebie from Stanford.

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook