Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan)
Subject: Re: [Q]: Messagepassing pvm ->pc
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Date: 13 Sep 1994 22:33:36 GMT
Message-ID: <3559c0$jlm@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>

In article <3542g7$i4u@news.uni-paderborn.de>,
Jan (not Jam) Wegner <jam@uni-paderborn.de> wrote:
>I saw a discussion about pvm and windows a few days ago. Does somebody
>do the work (or better has done the work) , to implement a message-
>passing-interface from (e.g) pvm-process to (e.g.) a windows-pc.

The major result from that discussion is that no one has done it, and
it would be difficult (at best) to try to do it.  The useful
suggestions included:

-using an OS that isn't quite so brain-dead as Windows, and can support
 PVM, such as Linux, NetBSD, or OS/2
-just open a window on your Windows box and log in to a real computer
-don't use PVM

For various reasons, none of these suggestions were feasible for the
original poster asking the question.

Crispin
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