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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux/Pro [was Re: Coding style - a non-issue]
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Hi!

> > Premise 3: it is far easier to take a bunch of operating system images 
> >    and make them share the parts they need to share (i.e., the page 
> >    cache), than to take a single image and pry it apart so that it 
> >    runs well on N processors. 
> 
> Of course it's easier. But it seems like you're left with much more work to 
> reiterate in each application you write to run on this thing. Do you want to 
> do the work once in the kernel, or repeatedly in each application? I'd say
> it's a damned sight easier to make an application work well on one big
> machine than on a cluster.

With mosix, it is exactly as hard. You just run it. I can do that today.
Larry's ideas should look same w.r.t. user.. Or maybe you'll see 128x
boot messages, but that's it.

								Pavel 
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