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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX's TCF
Keywords: TCF, load balancing, process migration, operating systems
Message-ID: <1554@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 90 18:11:16 GMT
References: <112@renoir.cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
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In article <112@renoir.cs.utexas.edu> kenchew@cs.utexas.edu (Khien Mien Kennedy Chew) writes:
>	Does anyone have any experience with AIX's TCF (Transparent
>Computing Facility)?  Could anyone point me to papers written about it?

Popek and Walker's "The LOCUS Distributed Operating System" (I might have
mangled the title a bit) from MIT Press is a good exposition of the ideas
behind TCF and describes a somewhat earlier version of the Locus system.


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