It certainly looks interesting!
	I can probably provide access to a NetBSD/sparc box if you would
	be interested...

		David/abs

- "It was at that point I realised there might be a chance for myself as a
-  caring human being. Unable to decide whether to feel hopeful or disgusted,
-  I chose both and opened a bottle of wine to celebrate"

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 mshar@vax.ipm.ac.ir wrote:

> Dear BSD users,
> 
>  I have written a software to make System V IPC mechanisms (shared memories,
> messages, and semaphores) function transparently over a network. It is
> called DIPC (Distributed Inter-process Communication), and is currrently
> available for Linux. DIPC could be used to build and program multi-computers.
> 
>  As I don't have access to any BSD variant, I am writing this to see if
> there are people in the BSD community who might like to port DIPC to their
> operating systems.
> 
>  Here are some information about DIPC:
> 
>  DIPC provides the programmers with both the message passing and
> (Transparent) Distributed Shared Memory paradigms of distributed programming.
> Its programming interfaces are hidden inside the kernel, so there is no need
> to use link libraries or special compilers to write distributed programs. One
> could use any language that allows access to OS's system calls. Older
> programs using System V IPC still work unchanged.
> 
>  Most of the DIPC's code runs as a number of daemons in the user space, so
> the changes to the Linux kernel are kept at the minimum.
> 
>  DIPC already runs on both i386 and m68k platforms, and the two versions
> can talk to each other, meaning that DIPC is a heterogeneous distributed
> system. You can visit DIPC's web page at http://wallybox.cei.net/dipc
> 
>  I believe DIPC would be a good addition to BSD. Please contact me at
> mshar@vax.ipm.ac.ir if you are interested.
> 
>  Thank you.
> 
>  Regards,
>           Kamran Karimi
> 
> PS- Sorry if I have posted this to the wrong mailing list!
>