From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 04:29:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: autonomous agents (fwd)
Message-ID: <199801122044.OAA22802@einstein.ssz.com>
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> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:25:53 GMT
> From: Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: autonomous agents

> A canonical way to do implement things like remailers, eternity
> servers etc. is to build a distributed computation system to allow
> autonomous agents to be distributed across the internet.  Create a
> market for CPU resources, bandwidth and disk-space so that the agent
> can pay it's way.  Charge per CPU/hour, Mbit comms at given data rates
> and Mbyte/year storage, base it on Java as a portable network based
> language with code distribution support.  Then let people fire off
> what ever they like, so long as they are paying.

Has anyone done any work that you are aware of under the Plan 9 os? With
it's fundamental seperation of i/o, process, and file servers along with
it's inherent bidding/scheduling mechanism it seems to me that a lot of this
work has already been done. In addition there are programs that allow Linux
boxes to participate as Plan 9 compliant file servers.


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