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		VMware proposes a new kind of OS -- one that could ease the bugbear of parallel processing (infoworld.com)
		7 points by snydeq on Sept 18, 2008 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

biohacker42 on Sept 18, 2008 | [–]

Because writing a good distributed OS, is a piece of cake.

The _ _ _ _ is a _ _ _!

wmf on Sept 18, 2008 | [–]

After you write your app to be shared-nothing, VMware will happily scale it for you. That may ease system administration, but it won't make parallel programming any easier.

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