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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:44:24 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Barrelfish
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> At the hardware level we do have message passing between a
> processor and the memory controller -- this is exactly the
> same as talking to a shared server and has the same issues of
> scaling etc. If you have very few clients, a single shared
> server is indeed a cost effective solution.

just to repeat myself in a context that hopefully makes things
clearer:  sometimes we don't admit it's a network.  and that's
not always a bad thing.

- erik