on GUIs and such things

Kragen Sitaker kragen@pobox.com
Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:51:53 -0400 (EDT)


David Nicol asks:
> Bill Frantz wrote:
> > At 08:45 PM 7/20/00 -0400, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
> > >EROS provides better OS support for metacomputing than
> > >anything else can or will.
> 
> Are capability keys unique clusterwide?

That's another matter; the hard challenge of metacomputing is running
untrusted software on your computer, which EROS does better than
anything else.

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<kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
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