DistOS 2023W 2023-01-23

Discussion questions

Remember, these are just to get you started. Please allow your discussion to go where it will, so long as it is somewhat related to the readings.

• How distributed was the Mother of All Demos?
• How distributed was the Alto?
• How did the demo actually work? What was the system capable of?
• What could the Alto do? On what sort of hardware?
• How do these systems relate to the topics of this class?
• What did you find interesting? Surprising?
• Are there any ideas here that seem promising but we've "forgotten" about?