On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Alan Kay wrote:
> For a classic approach to these problems, check out Gerry Popek's 
> "LOCUS OS", MIT Press, ca. early to mid 80s. This was/is(?) a really 
> comprehensive and beautiful distributed UNIX over multiple platforms 
> with process migration and load balancing, etc.

This page:

    http://www.iti.mu-luebeck.de/~petri/pbeamrefs.html

includes this reference:

     G. Popek and and B. Walker and J. Chow and D. Edwards and C. Kline
     and G. Rudisin and G. Thiel: LOCUS: A Network Transparent, High
     Reliability Distributed System. In Operating Systems Review, volume
    15, number 5, December 1981, pages 169--177.

BTW, I have been working on this problem since 1984. Give me another 30
years and I will show you a great prototype running on Squeak :-)

-- Jecel