On 10/2/06, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

PVM3 (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a library and daemon that allows
distributed processing environments to be constructed on heterogeneous
machines and architectures.

How does this help when your network's down?

No, PVM == 5684-100 Passthrough Virtual Machine

It's a VM licensed product to that was popular for inter-system
communications in the days where you had real terminals on a
controlled that was connected to a single system. With PVM you could
hop from one system to the other in your PVM network (built on CTCs).
Sites with large SNA investments connected terminals to SNA
controllers and FEP and would have no justification for running PVM
and maintaining the connectivity for that.
In addition to interactive 3270 sessions, PVM was also abused to cary
CP-to-CP traffic for CSE. I believe this choice of connectivity is one
of the reasons CSE never changed the world in the way it could have.

Rob

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