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- From: myoung@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com
- Subject: Re: Implications for IBM
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.235422.7530@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
- References: <BzAAwL.CGy@unix.portal.com>,<1992Dec16.173515.17042@NOC.Vitalink.COM>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 23:54:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec16.173515.17042@NOC.Vitalink.COM>, dgr@RODIN (Daniel Robinson) writes:
- >In article <BzAAwL.CGy@unix.portal.com> kyma@shell.portal.com (Matt J Young) writes:
- >+
- >+ 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.
-
- Just after posting, IBM announced their intention to license
- the micro-kernel for server applications which require application
- specific, proprietary operating systems.
-
- Now IBM, please add to that the semantic control layer, a
- protocol layer which allows the arbitrary distribution of data across
- arbitrary processors.
-
- >Of course there will be multi-tasking on the desktop;
-
- Not according to 60 million DOS users. Most of them have no background
- tasks to perform, and satisfied with task switching at best.
-
- >One should not infer a file system on the desktop.
- Explain this, teach me something. You have some ideas here which are
- smarter than my thinking on the subject.
-
- > The data center needs a multi-tasking operating system to maintain
- >multiple contexts.
-
- I am refering to large clusters of low cost processors over which
- processes are spread, simultaneously existing in multiple processers
- at an instance. In these cases, the individual hardware processers
- work just fine with a single task OS. (The message passing system
- provides the multi-tasking affect.) This is the model ffor enterprise
- data bases.
-
- >
- >The paradigm of peer machines on desktops being served by slaves
- >in the back room unnecessarily burdens the network...
-
- Well, the posters on this group tell me that 100 Mbps up to 1 Gbps
- will be cheaper than a pair of Sharks (local hockey club) tickets.
-