You can also find it at MIT Press ....

Cheers,

Alan

P.S. Those of us who are getting ancient would love to see neat stuff 
before the next 30 years have passed ...........

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At 11:41 AM -0300 10/9/00, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
>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