Model

BRIAN SPILSBURY zhivago@iglou.com
Sun, 11 May 1997 02:22:31 -0400 (EDT)


> Well, an "application" is a user-level term; the actual storage thing is
> an independent environment, a virtual machine - dedicated to a given task.
> IE, an "application" is a VM running a piece of code "continually" ('cept
> it gets serialised when we don't want it).

So we're back to the unix one-process==one-machine paradigm.

Where applications use ipc to talk to each other, but essentially
run in different systems.

If that's the case, then that's fine, I just thought we were talking
about something completely different.

Brian