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> Is this really fundamentally different to existing syscalls?

Originally & perhaps still DragonflyBSD was attempting to become a Single-System-Image OS, was supposed to allow multiple boxes to work together in a way that looked like a single computer.

I could definitely see making syscalls be more like messages as being a useful starting abstraction for this scenario.




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