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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!info.curtin.edu.au!cproto From: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386 Date: 14 Jun 93 11:53:00 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 17 Message-ID: <cproto.740058780@marsh> References: <1993Jun11.181807.8884@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jun12.022844.7448@e2big.mko.dec.com> <1993Jun12.040132.18268@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C8I9E4.A6q@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <m1mnvlINNaod@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au Keywords: Sprite, Distributed BSD brazile@cs.utexas.edu (P. Jason Brazile) writes: >In article <C8I9E4.A6q@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>Does anyone know if there's an effort to do something with the Sprite kernel? >Even though you ask this because Sprite was a totally rewritten mostly-BSD >kernel and therefore not in jepardy of the lawsuit, I think it merits >consideration for far more than that. >For those not familiar with it, it is roughly a distributed version of BSD >UNIX that seems to be (IMHO) an architecturaly better solution than regular >BSD + NFS + NIS + diskless booting. One very important benefit is that is >supports process migration. Is the Sprite kernel available via ftp? Any documents describing it? Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cprto@cs.curtin.edu.au)