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Re:The Revival of Medley/Interlisp on Friday November 24, 2023 @07:24AM (#38403258)
You might want to check out Urbit: urbit.org. The whitepaper[1] is a bit outdated but in section 12 "Inadequate summary of related work" you can see some of its influences:

"Many historical OSes and interpreters have approached the SSI[2] ideal, but fail on persistence, determinism, or both. In the OS department, the classic single-level store is the IBM AS/400 [18]. NewtonOS [19] was a shipping product with language-level persistence. Many image oriented interpreters (e.g., Lisps [20] and Smalltalks) are also SSI-ish, but usually not transactional or deterministic. And of course, many databases are transactional and deterministic, but their lifecycle function is not a general-purpose interpreter."

- [1] https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf

- [2] "Solid-State Interpreter"

> Last Updated: September 24, 2018

This is very outdated and Tlon no longer operates/runs urbit.org but, in any case, the ToS says this: "The Site is owned and operated by Tlon", so the reference was to the website "urbit.org", not the Urbit project.

Urbit has always been open source—currently under the MIT license [1]—and same as Ethereum it's also guided by a non-profit foundation, the Urbit Foundation [2] established in 2021.

[1] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt [2] https://urbit.org/overview/people-history

Re:Urbit – A clean-slate OS and network for the 21st century on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:05AM (#29129888)
This article [1] has some good points about it.

- [1] https://medium.com/dcspark/why-urbit-410d32961031

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