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From: kupfer@sprite.berkeley.edu (Mike Kupfer)
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Subject: Re: OS kernel sources
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Date: 15 Nov 90 03:11:01 GMT
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In article <MIB.90Nov14174402@churchy.ai.mit.edu> mib@churchy.ai.mit.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
> To my knowledge, no one (including CMU) other than the FSF is
> considering implementing a free server on top of the Mach microkernel.

Well, we (the Sprite group) are planning to put Sprite up on Mach.
Sprite is free.  Of course, we're just getting started.  Come back in
a few months.

(For those who haven't heard of Sprite before, its chief claims to
fame are a really great distributed file system and transparent
process migration.)

Mike Kupfer
kupfer@sprite.berkeley.edu