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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Historic Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Distributed systems, was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question"
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:19:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2OP6yrBOsqPCp=3B4zzp4uB2ExYbiQA50jYU8Se0KaO2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgz5pfeCsG61XG9Fj6UxAuTBDVYnBNQzQJB3JfQ8GKyBNg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 1:25 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am convinced that large-scale modern compute centers would be run very
> differently, with fewer or at least lesser problems, if they were treated
> as a single system rather than as a bunch of single-user computers ssh'ed
> together.
>
+1


> But history had other ideas.
>
History and 'good' (cheap) enough.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-18  6:15 Andrew Warkentin
2020-01-18  6:25 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-18  7:30   ` [TUHS] [TUHS -> COFF] " Andrew Warkentin
2020-01-18 11:55   ` [TUHS] " Álvaro Jurado
2020-01-20 17:05     ` U'll Be King of the Stars
2020-01-18 20:24   ` Adam Thornton
2020-01-18 20:40     ` Toby Thain
2020-01-20 20:19   ` Clem Cole [this message]
2020-02-08 17:18   ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-02-09 18:42     ` Larry McVoy

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