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- This cdrom includes the source code, executables, documentation
- and research papers for the Sprite network operating system. Sprite
- is a distributed systems research project led by Prof. John Ousterhout
- in the Computer Science Department of the University of California
- at Berkeley. Besides Prof. Ousterhout, the research team has
- included Brent Welch, Andrew Cherenson, Fred Douglis, Mike Nelson,
- Adam de Boor, Mendel Rosenblum, Mary Baker, Bob Bruce, John Hartman,
- Ken Shirriff, Mike Kupfer, Jim Mott-Smith, Geoff Voelker, and Matt
- Secor. Many others have also contributed to the system.
-
- Nothing on this cdrom is guaranteed to work. This collection of
- source, executables, documentation and papers was put together in
- a great hurry. While we were able to test some aspects, much was
- left untested. Make what use of it you can, but we will not be
- available to fix problems.
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- This disc conforms to the level 1 ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions.
- If your operating system supports Rock Ridge, you can access the files using
- the full Unix pathnames. If your system does not support Rock Ridge, the
- filenames are limited to eight single-case characters, with an extension of
- up to three characters. Each directory on this disc has a file named
- 00_TRANS.TBL, that maps the ISO-9660 compliant filenames to the original
- Unix-style filenames. The programs /util/cd_copy.c and /util/cd_link.c
- can be used to copy or link the files on the cdrom using the original
- filenames on systems without Rock Ridge extensions.
-
- This cdrom contains the following files and directories:
-
- admin: directory for administrative programs, scripts and information
- boot.txt: file with information about booting the Sprite kernel images
- docs: directory for documentation
- ds5000.bt: boot image for Sprite on a DECstation 5000/200
- sun4.bt: boot image for Sprite on a SparcStation 2
- lib: directory for library files other than source files
- filename.lst A list of all the files on the disc
- ls_lR: output from ls -lR, a recursive list of the files on the disc
- man: directory for manual pages
- papers: directory for research papers about Sprite
- readme.txt: file that describes this CD-ROM
- sprite.txt: file with a history of the Sprite project
- src: directory for source code for kernel, commands, libraries, etc
-