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From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: PVM on MSODS?
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ftacnikj@ax61.bnl.gov (Jan Ftacnik) writes:

: I am sorry, but to port PVM to MSDOS doesn't make any sense. 
From the point of view of its user (i.e. what you can use it for) it 
does make sense.
: MSDOS is
: single tasking operating system and in PVM you have deamon process and
: console process and user processes ... 
That's a property of the current implementation. Admittedly, an MSDOS 
port would certainly be more work than to just adapt the given implementation 
to another operating system and there could probably not be use and 
administration on the same machine.
: But if you don't mind trying OS2
: I have ported PVM to OS2 (that definitely supports MCA machines :-).
Great!
: If you are interested, take a look at the site ftp-os2.cdrom.com in
: the directory /pub/os2/2_x/program, file caled pvm3os2b.zip.
Thanks a lot. This will be tried as soon as OS/2 is installed.
Thomas Wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de

