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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:07:44 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Subject:   Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs
Message-ID:  <20001130070744.F58294@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <200011240208.TAA06691@usr06.primenet.com>
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001122180746.7920B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <200011240208.TAA06691@usr06.primenet.com>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote:
>
>I suspect that someone, somewhere, is working on an OS like the one
>at the University of Utah, using source code to migrate processes
>between dissimilar architectures (as one over-the-top example).

In 1993 I saw an OS called Taos running on a PC with a transputer
expansion card, transparently migrating programs between the two
architectures using JIT compilation of bytecode. It also had support
for ARM and other architectures. They're still around:
http://www.tao.co.uk/.

Tony.
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f.a.n.finch     dot@dotat.at     fanf@covalent.net     Chad for President!


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