Remote machine C compilier

[Daniel Curry]

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I hope this is the right place to ask this question.

When I was back in Berkeley, I took my Data structure course(CS160) in summer,
1984.  There was a "remote compile program" which would poll the load average
of some remote machines.  If the load was light enough, the program would
somehow ship the compile to the remote machine, and the resulting object
would come back and be placed in the proper directory.

The program name was called Rpc or Rpi (yes, we were using Pascal...).

I also remember running across a similar program that, instead of compiling
Pascal, it would run Spice.

One could see the usefulness of this program in a classroom environment,
where everybody tends to do their stuff 0-3 days before the assignment is due.

What I want to know is this: Does a C version of this program exist?  If so,
where can I get this?

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which newsgroup I should post this in.

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