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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs
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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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