> > 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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