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Fri Oct 18 12:37:33 EDT 2019
distributed systems
I can't get rid of the concept of "logging into a node".
Is it possible to get rid of that idea?
I guess the abstraction of "this machine" is just a hard one to shake.
So what is a "machine" in that sense? A CPU of course, but that is
just the thing that mixes information. A machine is really its
connection to "devices". That's what I need a ssh for. To get to its
disk directly, or its USB ports etc..
For applications, most of that can be abstracted: what the CPU does in
that case is to abstract the local devices to participate in network
activity.
In that sense, a machine is a network endpoint. A last hop router.
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