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VAX VMS Clustering: a single CPU architecture on VAX HW meant that micros and minis could cluster, and your process could be hosted anywhere in the cluster. It'
by osullivj 5y ago
VAX VMS Clustering: a single CPU architecture on VAX HW meant that micros and minis could cluster, and your process could be hosted anywhere in the cluster. It's taking a long, long time to reinvent that particular wheel with a combination of microservices and containers.
Xerox PARC Alto workstation: GUI, TCP networking and Smalltalk 72 OO programming system, all in 1973! This wheel has been reinvented in part many times since by Apple, MS and others. How much real progress has there been in the last ~50 years?
- rixed 5y agoRe. the VMS clustering: pardon my complete ignorance but how did orchestration work? How was the host of a new process chosen? Could processes be migrated from host to host? And how do you connect to a given service if you don't know where it's running? Any link to some overview of how this work would be greatly appreciated.