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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Ada-inspired OS/Language
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Nick Roberts wrote:

> Yes, I think it is. I am not very familiar with Andrew, but my impression
> is that in fact no-one has produced a truly distributed OS yet (that can
> shuffle processes between workstations arbitrarily, without any major
> restrictions).

IIRC Tao (or is it Taos?) can do this. And even in a 
partially architecture independent way. But I haven't played 
with it for a very long time.

Jacob
-- 
Do you have a job for a physicist with experience in:

  * Complex systems (mostly turbulence experiments)
  * Geoscience (a bit of oceanography and geology)
  * Programming (mostly in Ada and Pascal)