[ih] Resource sharing

[Miles Fidelman]

John Day wrote:
> Klensin mentioned Illinois, so I was listing only what had been going 
> on at Illinois. It was not intended to imply it was the only place 
> that sort of thing was going on.  It wasn't.  There was considerable 
> other distributed computing work going on elsewhere in those early 
> days.  The Irvine ring being one of the big ones.  As I said, I think 
> those today like to think that all we were doing was remote login to 
> make themselves feel good about only doing the web, which differs from 
> remote login more in form than substance.
>
>> On 12/23/2012 6:11 AM, John Klensin wrote:
>>>  IMO, the shared-resource
>>> activities that John Day and I are describing were somewhat different,
>>> involving having the local software resolve user interface issues,
>>> determine what resources were out there that could best meet the
>>> requirements of the particular user and application, and then seeking
>>> those resources out, using them, and making them look local.
>> ...
>>>  All of that, as John points
>>> out, pretty much requires an application-oriented operating system
>>
>> National Software Works?
>
> NSW was another major attempt.  My impression (which could be wrong) 
> was that a) it was far ahead of what the hardware could support at the 
> time, and b)  the design needed another iteration. It took a 
> not-quite-right approach to an extreme.  A more naunced design would 
> have been better.  But it was a step in the right direction.

Come to think of it, there was also cronus.

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