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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <coff@minnie.tuhs.org>, Josh Good <pepe@naleco.com>
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 13:50:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGdZVFUsErA8Lwd+@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210402161147.GG8268@mcvoy.com>

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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2021-04-02 17:54           ` Larry McVoy

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