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From: "Álvaro Jurado" <elbingmiss@gmail.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: Sat, 18 Jan 2020 12:55:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHJeKDVpxUPodBaTpqDMjWThXh=EUhjqKO1ZhiRHEAQ6qJrFcA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgz5pfeCsG61XG9Fj6UxAuTBDVYnBNQzQJB3JfQ8GKyBNg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 07:26, 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.
>
> But history had other ideas.
>
> -rob
>
>
IBM Watson is not that concept?
I think history (bussiness) tends right now to a decentralized model for
large systems, which is not clear if it’s an advantage for now. Rather than
emulating centralized computing systems across many machines. Anyway, the
main interest for researching about is still keeping the bussiness running.
And for now Unix descendants do it really well.

—
Álvaro Jurado

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Álvaro

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-18 11:56 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   ` Álvaro Jurado [this message]
2020-01-20 17:05     ` [TUHS] " 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
2020-02-08 17:18   ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-02-09 18:42     ` Larry McVoy

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