DistOS 2015W Session 2

Reading Response Discussion

Mother of All Demos:

Team: Jason, Kirill, Sravan, Agustin, Hassan Ambalica, Apoorv, Khaled

• 1968, Doug Inglebard
• One computer with multiple terminals controlling
• Video conferencing
• Computer mouse
• Word processing, rudimentary copy and paste
• Dynamic file linking
• Revision control/version control/source control
• Collaborative real-time editor
  • User privilege control in that user can provide read-only access, read-write privilege to file
• Cord keyboard
  • Marco keyboard that allows messages quickly, while using mouse at same time
• Not really a distributed operating system, but great start because multiple users at different terminals could share same resources

Alto

Team: Tory, Veena, Sameer, Mert, Deep, Nameet, Moe

• 1973
• High speed (3 Mbps @ 1km difference)
• Connects up to 256 machines
• Protocol similar to cross between UDP/TCP, before TCP invented
• Allowed sharing printers
• Also allowed for distributing files across computers (redundancy/reliability)
• Sort of early cloud
• Allowed for remote debugging, store error logs
• Allowed machines to use processing power of others
• much of the time it would be doing nothing