Re: [9fans] Re: Announcing the release of NetBSD 3.0

[erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>]

i was interested in one posting (i'm to lazy to re reread it and find the 
reference) where you were multicasting or broadcasting a buffer to
n nodes for digestion using what sounded like page-based DSM.

it's the type of operation that you can't do with 9p.
and i never did convince myself that i needed to. 

page-based DSM has always sounded like 1/2 of a brilliant idea.
there was an os named dsum dimsum or something based on DSM
in the early 90s. the only problem was that they put the DSM so
deep in the system that you couldn't mix processor types in a cluster.
(who's to say what node you might have landed on.)

needless to say, i couldn't google it up.

- erik

"Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes

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| 
| > ron, are you still using dsm?
| 
| Nah. I was young and naive back then. Now I am old and naive. Along the
| way, I dumped DSM, although my last go-round was something called ZOUNDS,
| which I used to good effect for X11-based tiled displays and other such
| things you can see on my web page. ZOUNDS is available free of charge bla
| bla bla, and I still hear from people every now and then who are using it.
|