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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news From: brazile@cs.utexas.edu (P. Jason Brazile) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386 Date: 13 Jun 1993 12:12:21 -0500 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Lines: 24 Message-ID: <m1mnvlINNaod@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: dimebox.cs.utexas.edu Keywords: Sprite, Distributed BSD 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. People have been starving long enough for a real operating system that BSD is beautiful. However, 386s are cheap enough that you might as well consider the case that you have more than one of them (even at home). Running a network of 50 Suns and NeXTs makes me appreciate what such an OS could do when I see 15 people logged into one workstation (because it is the fastest) when 20 (albeit slightly slower) other workstations sit idle. === Jason Brazile brazile@cs.utexas.edu Graduate Student Dept of Computer Science "People say I'm apathetic but I don't care" University of Texas