Yes. Mosix was the kind of black magic that makes you think software today is still several generations behind the times (like Plan9 before it). Even its distributed network filesystem is superior in ease of use to all others. But the devil's in the details, and distributing threads and shared memory is just really difficult, and the patchsets never made it into vanilla. So there goes yet another amazing design down the drain.
It reminds me of how electric cars are a 190 year old technology whose actual peak popularity was 120 years ago. Yet here we are, with manufacturers predicting they'll finally be popular again, in 10 to 15 years.
It reminds me of how electric cars are a 190 year old technology whose actual peak popularity was 120 years ago. Yet here we are, with manufacturers predicting they'll finally be popular again, in 10 to 15 years.