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From: mcvax!imag.imag.fr!krakowia@uunet.UU.NET (Sacha Krakowiak)
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Subject: Re: Question for the week -- distributed Multics?
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In article <6154@saturn.ucsc.edu> darrell@midgard.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) writes:
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>I'd like to get some opinions on this: How much sense does a distributed
>version of Multics make?  That is, a memory mapped file system with shared
>segments across machines?

This is a very good idea. There is at least one distributed OS that more or
less implements it : Apollo Domain. See description in P.J.Leach et al.,
The architecture of a distributed integrated local network, IEEE Journal on
Selected areas in Communication, nov.1983,pp.842-856.

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