marina@ai.toronto.edu (Marina Haloulos) (12/12/89)
Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto (GB = Gailbraith Building, 35 St. George Street) ------------------------------------------------------------- SYSTEMS SEMINAR GB244, at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday 12 December 1989 Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands "The Amoeba Distributed Operating System" Amoeba is an operating system designed for an environment in which the number of processors is much larger than the number of available users. It's goal is to provide the users with the illusion of a virtual uniprocessor on top of hardware that is physically distributed, potentially over large distances. The system is object-based, with objects being protected by a cryptographically-secure capabilities. Various aspects of the design will bes discussed, including the protection scheme, file server, directory server, and operation over wide-area networks.