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- From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@smoke.brl.mil>
-
- In article <507@longway.TIC.COM> isaak@decvax.dec.com (Jim Isaak) writes:
- [ The quoted text is from the actual draft PAR, by Karen Sheaffer. -mod ]
-
- >The IEEE 1003.10 Supercomputing Working Group has been developing
- >a proposed standard for a batch processing system based on NQS, the Network
- >Queuing System originally developed at NASA Ames.
-
- "Originally developed at NASA Ames" is unfair attribution. NQS was
- developed for them by a contractor who started with BRL's MDQS, which
- is still available from host VGR.BRL.MIL by anonymous FTP and is what
- we use on all our UNIX systems EXCEPT the Crays for both general
- device spooling and (local or network) batch queueing. (The Crays
- use NQS because those systems have all sorts of mainframish controls
- that must be negotiated with to get anything significant done; very
- non-UNIXy.)
-
- This is not an objection to the PAR or even to using NQS as a base;
- it's just that I feel BRL (and Doug Kingston in particular) deserve
- part of the credit..
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- Volume-Number: Volume 18, Number 22
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