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- From: dgr@RODIN (Daniel Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Implications for IBM
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:35:15 GMT
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- In article <BzAAwL.CGy@unix.portal.com> kyma@shell.portal.com (Matt J Young) writes:
- +
- + Prior to deployment of the new networks, we have to make expli-
- +cit their effect on the traditional mainframe business. To para-
- +phrase the CEO of SUN, nobody benefits if IBM is dismembered.
- +
- + (stuff deleted)
- +
- + The paradox then is a resurgence of simple DOS like systems in
- +the data center with an imperative for multi-tasking on the desk-
- +top.
- +
- + The new opportunity is for an OS/2 market on the desktop, while
- +the demand for risc in the data center begs for a simple, single
- +tasking kernel.
-
- I don't understand this distinction of single and multi-tasking.
- Of course there will be multi-tasking on the desktop; however,
- one should not infer a file system on the desktop. Multi-tasking
- is always preferred. The data center needs a multi-tasking operating
- system to maintain multiple contexts, as does the windowing system
- on the desktop.
-
- The paradigm of peer machines on desktops being served by slaves
- in the back room unnecessarily burdens the network as these desktop
- file systems try to move state information between themselves. That
- state information must be moved, but it should be done across the
- shortest path: between adjacent servers in the back room.
-
-
- Dan Robinson
-