From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Warkentin <andreww591@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 17:25:14 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgz5pfeCsG61XG9Fj6UxAuTBDVYnBNQzQJB3JfQ8GKyBNg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD-qYGqpFtgAMSa+Ypn5gzcEsK0dNVJ3B4AHWgjLfoaLhBpdUg@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-18 6:25 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 [this message]
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
2020-02-08 17:18 ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-02-09 18:42 ` Larry McVoy
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