Croquet does replicated distributed computing. LOCUS did "freely migrating 
system nodes".

One actually needs both (though a lot can be done with today's capacities just 
using the Croquet techniques).

Cheers,

Alan




>________________________________
> From: Shawn Morel <[email protected]>
>To: Alan Kay <[email protected]>; Fundamentals of New Computing 
><[email protected]> 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 5:14 PM
>Subject: Migrating / syncing computation "live-documents"
> 
>
>
>
>Taken from the massive multi-thread "Error trying to compile COLA"
>
>And I've also mentioned Popek's LOCUS system as a nice model for migrating 
>processes over a network. It was Unix only, but there was nothing about his 
>design that required this.
>
>
>When thinking about storing and accessing documents, it's fairly 
>straightforward to think of some sort of migration / synchronization scheme.
>
>In thinking of objects more on par with VMs / computers / services, has there 
>been any work on process migration that's of any importance since LOCUS? Did 
>Croquet push the boundaries of distributing computations?
>
>
>shawn
>
>
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