It was PVM that enabled true message passing parallel code to be written that made a pile of machines (be they Alphas, simple PCs, Sun
I'm not disagreeing, but wonder why PVM is basically extinct now. that is, why was MPI considered an improvement/replacement?
MS knifed IBM over OS/2 (which was a decently designed OS that might have given Unix a real run for its money) and hence lost out on all the
I worked on OS/2, and it was no peach on the inside, so to speak ;) it's hard to speculate about what-ifs on a system which had barely shaken off its initial hw target (12 MHz 286!) by the time it was dropped. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
