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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, Ben Black wrote:
> from reading the MOSIX docs it seems it *is* totally transparent and that 
> was one of their primary goals.  MOSIX migrates processes mased on 
> resource use and handles connecting STDIN, STDOUT, and other resources 
> back to the "home node".  when a process is migrated, nobody should 
> notice anything but better performance.

Check out the whitepapers on Sprite.

Single system image would be really nifty and if CCD could be extended to
do ZebraFS like things...

Anyhow back to reality.

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