DBOS: A database-oriented operating system

Re:DBOS: A database-oriented operating system by jasonwatkinspdx on Saturday September 03, 2022 @05:55PM (#32706494)

So I would strongly disagree with your notion that an OS cannot be a distributed system. Several OS's, such as Plan 9, were explicitly designed as distributed systems from the beginning. For Plan 9, running it on a solo computer is more the edge case than the common case they designed for, which was a small team with workstations sharing a central server.

All of the computers are "running" the OS. The OS is more than one service on more than one machine.

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Re:DBOS: A database-oriented operating system by crazygringo on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:11PM (#32708021)

Ah thank you. I had no idea. Turns out distributed operating systems were/are a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_operating_system

"Research and experimentation efforts began in earnest in the 1970s and continued through the 1990s, with focused interest peaking in the late 1980s. A number of distributed operating systems were introduced during this period; however, very few of these implementations achieved even modest commercial success."

So looks like they're trying to keep the idea going?

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