Hi all, Last Friday, I gave an example (really basic) of what the new virtual computing world would be like. My example used the concept that two companies (one on each U.S. coast) could use the same computer without owning the computer, or conflicting with each others process time. One list member responded that this was the old "charge-back system", and while in some ways it is, what I left out in my example was the very important point that in the virtual computing world, you will not know (or care) where the computer(s) that you are using are physically located. Your process may be distributed over the entire globe, and using a hundred different boxes at the same time. So, I hope this helps clear up my example (that appeared to confuse more than it helped to explain). ;-) Ray Shahan "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves none of us to talk about the rest of us" --Robert Louis Stevenson? ##################################################################################### This e-mail message has been scanned for Viruses and Content and cleared by MailMarshal ##################################################################################### * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *