Re: Anyone with a long memory?
Once upon a time Daniel L. Miller said...
> Some time ago, I remember reading about an older operating system - and
> now I can't remember the name or where I found it. I believe I stumbled
> onto it from a link when I was exploring the Hurd/Mach alternatives to
> Linux. A key item was that at a some show, possibly Comdex, the booth
> for this operating system was located near Novell's, and the reps would
> take turns gleefully kicking the power cord of the socket, the plugging
> it back in and having the system come back almost instantaneously -
> since it saved its state continuously to disk. The Novell people were -
> a trifle upset.
>
> Does anyone have any idea about what this operating system was/is or
> have a link I can visit?
I believe this may be Eros - http://www.eros-os.org/ .
There was a recent slashdot article about its successor, Coyotos -
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1738206&tid=190&tid=1
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