Croquet does replicated distributed computing. LOCUS did "freely migrating
system nodes".
One actually needs both (though a lot can be done with today's capacities just
using the Croquet techniques).
Cheers,
Alan
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> From: Shawn Morel
>To: Alan Kay ; Fundamentals of New Computing
>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:14 PM
>Subject: Migrating / syncing computation "live-documents"
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>Taken from the massive multi-thread "Error trying to compile COLA"
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>And I've also mentioned Popek's LOCUS system as a nice model for migrating
>processes over a network. It was Unix only, but there was nothing about his
>design that required this.
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>
>When thinking about storing and accessing documents, it's fairly
>straightforward to think of some sort of migration / synchronization scheme.
>
>In thinking of objects more on par with VMs / computers / services, has there
>been any work on process migration that's of any importance since LOCUS? Did
>Croquet push the boundaries of distributing computations?
>
>
>shawn
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