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From: mreynold@netcom.com (Marc B. Reynolds)
Subject: Re: Sprite - Current status?
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 18:20:48 GMT
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In article <3j1n5k$qlj@NNTP.MsState.Edu>,
Stormy Henderson <Stormy@GTLUG.ORG> wrote:
>Yasuo Ohgaki (yohgaki@du.edu) writes...
>
>   I need to know current status of Sprite operating system. 
>
>If it's the OS I'm thinking of (designed soley for networking), the research
>project for it has died.  I think.  (c:
>

Wasn't Ousterhout the driving force behind Sprite?  Since he left
UCB for Sun, I wouldn't be surprised.

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