27 Sep
2017
27 Sep
'17
5:22 a.m.
FWIW, I got the idea from finding out what SCSI was supposed to be - a set of devices with
everything
on the same level as a node, controller included. I was reading Tanenbaum's Minix
book at the time and
liked the idea of everything as a file, so "everything as a file" and
"every device as a node" just clicked as
ideal complements - with "everything designed to do one thing (only) and do it
well" being self-evident,
or so I thought. Nanokernels in every device, naturally, with some form of authentication
being one of
the few things built-in, was something else I considered self-evident.
I've thought a lot of things self-evident. :)
FWLIW :)
Wesley Parish
Quoting Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>:
So maybe Ron Minnich will remember this. Back in the
days of 10Mbit
ethernet I was pushing for 100Mbit. Part of what I wanted was ethernet
all the way out to the disk drives. It was a little ahead of its time,
the idea was to run Linux on the general purpose processor and be able
to send the questions to the drive rather than slurping all the data
across and pawing through it on the main CPU. That was part of the
idea, the other part was power over ethernet and you need more space?
Just plug in a drive.
It's been over 20 years since I proposed that and things are starting
to look up a little. Western Digital made a version of what I wanted,
an ethernet attached drive with a key/value store on the drive. Not
quite there but closer. And I just stumbled across this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_center_bridging
Not sure how well that will work but it's interesting that people are
working on it.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:42:43PM +1300, Wesley Parish wrote:
Ferdinand Sor,
"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Ferdinand Sor,
Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
Yes. I thought it made a lot of sense.
Quoting Tony Finch <dot(a)dotat.at>:
> Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>
> > I once thought of developing a computer where everything from the
> core
> > functions to the peripherals was a network node. In effect
replacing
> the
> > bus. I found references to a Cambridge U (UK) computer system
that
> > purported to do just that but
couldn't find any more info on it.
>
> The Desk Area Network, perhaps?
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/dan.html
>
> Tony.
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"I have supposed that he who buys a Method means to learn it." - Method for Guitar
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on." -- Samuel
Goldwyn
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