* Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM
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@ 2021-04-02 17:50 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-04-02 17:54 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Theodore Ts'o @ 2021-04-02 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: TUHS main list, Josh Good
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > Long before Linus released Linux into the wild in 1990 for the >>386<< much
> > less any other ISA, IBM had been shipping as a product AIX/370 (and AIX/PS2
> > for the 386); which we developed at Locus for them. The user-space was
> > mostly System V, the kernel was based on BSD (4.1 originally) pluis a great
> > deal of customization, including of course the Locus OS work, which IBM
> > called TCF - the transparent computing facility. It was very cool you
> > could cluster 370s and PS/2 and from >>any<< node run a program of either
> > ISA. It has been well discussed in this forum, previously.
>
> It's really a shame that TCF didn't get more widespread usage/traction.
> That's exactly what BitMover wanted to do, I wanted to scale small cheap
> SMPs in a cluster with a TCF layer on it. I gave some talks about it,
> it obviously went nowhere but might have if we had TCF as a starting
> point. TCF was cool.
(Moving this to COFF...)
Out of curiousity, how was TCF different or similar to Mosix?
- Ted
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* Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM
2021-04-02 17:50 ` [COFF] [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM Theodore Ts'o
@ 2021-04-02 17:54 ` Larry McVoy
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2021-04-02 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Theodore Ts'o; +Cc: TUHS main list, Josh Good
On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 01:50:12PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 09:11:47AM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > Long before Linus released Linux into the wild in 1990 for the >>386<< much
> > > less any other ISA, IBM had been shipping as a product AIX/370 (and AIX/PS2
> > > for the 386); which we developed at Locus for them. The user-space was
> > > mostly System V, the kernel was based on BSD (4.1 originally) pluis a great
> > > deal of customization, including of course the Locus OS work, which IBM
> > > called TCF - the transparent computing facility. It was very cool you
> > > could cluster 370s and PS/2 and from >>any<< node run a program of either
> > > ISA. It has been well discussed in this forum, previously.
> >
> > It's really a shame that TCF didn't get more widespread usage/traction.
> > That's exactly what BitMover wanted to do, I wanted to scale small cheap
> > SMPs in a cluster with a TCF layer on it. I gave some talks about it,
> > it obviously went nowhere but might have if we had TCF as a starting
> > point. TCF was cool.
>
> (Moving this to COFF...)
>
> Out of curiousity, how was TCF different or similar to Mosix?
The thing I remember most about TCF is that it virtualized struct
proc, so process pointers were like vnodes and you could move a
process to a different node in the cluster and ps still saw it
and could dig info out of the remote kernel.
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