[fonc] Migrating / syncing computation live-documents

2012-04-11 Thread Shawn Morel
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

Re: [fonc] Migrating / syncing computation live-documents

2012-04-11 Thread Alan Kay
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 shawnmo...@me.com To: Alan