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Date:      Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:43:28 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Kip Macy <kip@lyris.com>
Cc:        miaobo@mail.zhongxing.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re:Re: Code
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912241143020.4657-100000@dragon.ham.muohio.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9912221711170.16658-100000@luna.lyris.com>

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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Kip Macy wrote:

> Typically it refers to moving a process and all its associated attributes
> from one machine to another. There are a lot of problems with it, to
> the best of my knowledge the only OS that ever managed to get it right was
> Berkeley's Elf which was designed with it in mind from the beginning.
> Osterhout, the professor heading the group, said afterwords that the costs
> exceeded the gains.

Was Elf related to Sprite?

Jamie



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