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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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Subject: Re: RFS vs. NFS (really Locus and AIX)
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Date: 4 Apr 88 00:55:37 GMT
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In article <10206@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>, ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes:
> Again, you're considering execution semantics, which clearly don't
> belong in the File System. On Locus (now part of IBM's AIX), you could
> exec any binary on any node and it would be executed on an appropriate
> cpu. eg, exec'ing a Vax binary from a Sun would make it run on a Vax
> CPU if available, fail otherwise.

I was not aware that AIX incorporated any such semantics from the Locus
project; it wasn't mentioned as part of IBM's AIX family definition or of
their "DS"--Distributed Services, in a briefing I attended in Austin last week.
"Locus" the company bears little resemblance to the UCLA project; it shares
the name and a few principals.
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Steve Dyer
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