alt Hacker NewsWalnut Creek sold a Sprite CD-ROM back in the day. I got Sprite to boot on a Sun SPARCStation IPC. It was kind of unstable. I really wanted to try process migration and the log structured file system.
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EvanAnderson • last Saturday at 4:42 PM
Process migration seems like something that should be commonplace today. It would be an amazingly handy feature.
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You really don't want to run Sprite on a single host, unfortunately -- the local filesystem path is buggy, and there are some major bugs in the system as preserved on the CD-ROM, e.g. vfork() is totally borked, at least for software which expects a BSD-style vfork.
With some fixes, it can be pretty stable. Here's a web server running on Sprite on an IPC: https://ember.shockfox.net/
Or, well, it is running right now. I don't leave it online 24/7, so caveat emptor to future visitors.