The Project: An Experiment in Large-Scale Distributed Personal Computing L
M. Satranarayanan · 1984
The Information Technology Center, a collabrative effort between International Business Machines Corporation and Carnegie-Melhm University, is currently in the process of designing and implementing what may he one of the largest distributed computing systems yet attempted. This paper traces the origins of the project, discusses design issues pertinent to it, and gives an overview of the current status of a prototype implementation. The design described here combines the case of information sivmng characteristic of timesharing systems with the richness of user-machine interaction typical of personal computing. The resulting synergesis yields a model that may well become the standard computing paradigm of the next decade.