Promptness, queueing, diskless etc. etc.

[William S. Frantz]

> Who said the bank was remote?  If you take a distributed single level
> store to its logical conclusion, the bank will get faulted to the
> accessing site or the call will be sent to the remote.  Basically, the
> DSSS makes the remoteness invisible. It will depend on where, at any
> given moment, it proves to be most advantageous to situate the bank.

I certainly havn't done much thinking about distribution.  (I'm still
in the model of my machine on my desk, and high cost services which
are available thru the net.  A very sociologically different model.)
I would assume that a bank that didn't respond would be considered
a disadvantagous bank.  Requests for pages would go to some other
bank while returns would be queued or passed to another bank which
could handle them (depending on implementation).

I think that, since meters are controling local resources, they would
have to be local.  However, you might want to be able to turn off
one meter and stop processes on several machines.

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