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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2002 18:49:33 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Project idea: Put PVM in /usr/bin/make 
Message-ID:  <24556.1011635373@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:10:55 PST." <20020121091055.A5296@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> 

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In message <20020121091055.A5296@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes:

>> What you suggest is not going to happen in any of the next couple of
>> years unless $BIGCORP pays somebody to do it.
>
>I doubt it's nearly as complicated as you claim.  All you have to do is
>tell the system to envoke a set of jobs which is a fairly straight
>forward thing to do (it's not much harder then envoking rsh and you
>could easily write a simple wrapper that provided rsh symantics if it
>doesn't exist already.)

Uhm, PVM is a *much* faster way to start a job than rsh...

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