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- From: duwors@csi.uottawa.ca (Robert J. Du Wors)
- Subject: Re: Looking for rshd, telnetd, ftpd etc.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.142010.28953@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <1992Sep01.191707.28916@news.mentorg.com> <m0NgqB2w164w@underg.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 14:20:10 GMT
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- In article <m0NgqB2w164w@underg.UUCP> max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray) writes:
- >pbrooks@mentorg.com (Phil Brooks) writes:
- >
- >I agree with you, though. I think remote login would be very benificial.
- >Maybe it is a fading concept, but a new OS should be backwards campatible
- >in features. I mean a new OS ought to be able to do MORE things, not LESS.
-
- IMHO, this "fading concept" is one of the single most important concept in
- network computing.
-
- "Client-sever" is what will fade rapidly. NT requires so much horse power
- that go on using it as a distributed file system with a few canned centralized
- applications (the 1980 PC network model, NOT the true Workstation model) is
- silly. Silly, because the world will quickly pass you by. This is the final
- vestige of batch/timesharing mentality, perhaps a bit of VMS think :-).
-
- Note: Novell, the king of that appoarch, and the apparent first target of the
- NT marketing thrust, has moved heavily towards UNIX in order to get out of
- that bind.
-
- In real applications for the Nineties, the trend is and will increasingly
- be towards applications that spread themselves over the net, doing a piece
- of processing here, abstract resource acquistion there. The temporary
- surge towards the majority of processing being dedicated to the GUI, will
- subside (relatively) as application sophistication increases. Net result
- (bad pun): any computing resource on the network must be able to accomodate
- its slice of the action on a PER USER basis. If user identification is
- lost anywhere in the net, then security is snookered. Undefended nets
- with high asset valuable in their information content (i.e. most) will not be
- justifiable.
-
- I strongly suggest that remote login is a fundamental network primitive for
- the construction of distributed (read "heterogenous" and "majority of")
- applications.
-
- Well...its a thought anyways.
-
- Rob D.
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