From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cornelius@mail.keck.cx (Cornelius Keck)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 07:19:19 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Sprite
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I looked at the Berkeley repository last night, and did not
see some files required to run Sprite directly from disk --
for instance, the Sparc bootimage (sun4.bt or so) seems to
be missing, or I'm overlooking it, in my coffein-deprived
state of mind.

Anyway, googling "sprite cdrom" returns pointers to
www.rdg.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/cdrom/cdroms/sprite/...
Conveniently, www.rdg... does not resolve. www.mirror.ac.uk, on
the other hand, does, and Sprite seems to be at that very location.
The stuff underneath contains 4.8M of tar'd stuff. I don't have
the CD (would *love* to get a copy, or the ISO), so I can't
check if the contents are identical to the CD (somehow it does
not sound like it), but the stuff on mirror... only contains
a listing of the files on the CD, not the actual CD contents :(

Come to think of it.. I do have a few Sparc 2 machines, with
a few improvements (like 128MB RAM, Weitek PowerUp), and would
like to give Sprite a spin. I'm all for adding the Sprite ISO
to the archive!

- Cornelius



Randy Belk wrote:
> 
> I have looked everywhere for the cdrom of sprite. I saw a book about it a
> long time ago at a bookstore and almost bought it. Some very good theory
> and code was in the book if I remember right.  I don't guess any one would
> have the Walnut Creek cdrom of sprite that they would convert to an ISO
> and make available?
> 
> > Would it make sense to add Sprite to the Unix Archives? To me, yes, it was
> > enough UNIX like although it wasn't ATT or BSD derived and it had many
> > advanced features.
> >
> > I had the (small) pleasure to run it on a small number of DECstations back
> > in
> > 1994-1995 out of the freshly published WalnuCreek CD and I still long for
> > some
> > of it features.
> >
> > The distribution is still available at
> >
> >       http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/
> >
> >                               j
> > --
> >       These opinions are mine and only mine. Hey man, I saw them first!
> >
> >                           José R. Valverde
> >
> >       De nada sirve la Inteligencia Artificial cuando falta la Natural
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