Re: n-hurd networking

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Simon Law <sfllaw@uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:30:09PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > I wasn't speaking of subhurds, but of collectives.  Perhaps I
> > misunderstood the original question.  ("n-hurd" is not a normal term
> > I'm familiar with.)
> 
>       Are you talking about clusters?  It seems that that is what
> you're discussing, but I'm not sure.

I'm not going to answer that, because explaining one buzzword with
another rarely helps.

A Hurd collective is a set of separate machines connected by something
like ethernet, which want to present the appearance to users and the
world of being a single Posix system.