Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Tenet 1: The Network is The Computer
This is straight from Sun Microsystems, and it is good. Future computer users will expect to turn on their machine and command the world's resources. Extending this assumption a bit further than Sun has thus far, we see an OS which does not distinguish unnecessarily between local and remote resources. Users can log into any PC that is connected to the network identically to any other terminal, except for where locality specific features make sense, such as identifying the default printer. Also, this implies load balancing over network nodes, enabling very large scale distributed applications.
# posted by chopper : 10:20 PM
