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Comment · 3 years ago
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 The whitepaper[1] is a bit outdated but in section 12 "Inadequate summary of related work" you can see some of its influences: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"
Comment · 3 years ago
> 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This is very outdated and Tlon no longer operates/runs urbit.org but, in any case, the ToS says this: "The Site is owned and operated by Tlon", so the reference was to the website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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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
Comment · 3 years ago
Here's an old guide: https://blog.remilia.org/urbit-with-port/
~norsyr-torryn