[comp.archives] [folklore...] Re: What's Amoeba?

fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) (12/17/90)

Archive-name: os/research/amoeba/1990-12-15
Archive-directory: uunet.uu.net:/networking/amoeba/ [192.48.96.2]
Original-posting-by: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs)
Original-subject: Re: What's Amoeba? (Was Re: One True Unix)
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

ee88sbp@surrey.ac.uk (Sean Broderick Purdy) writes:

>In article <309@audfax.audiofax.com> arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) writes:
>>Ah well.  It's time the world moved on to something
>>like Amoeba, anyway.
>:

>  ...WRT the various ``UNIX''s. Now I may only be a fledgling sparky 
>  & a read-only-user, but I've never heard of Amoeba. Any info wud be
>  appreciated. Please cross-post to comp.misc 'cos my site doesn't get
>  the Alt groups [ :-( ], or via E-mail. (Sorry, I can't reply to 
>  overseas [ex-UK] messages 'cos my site can't afford the stamps.)

Amoeba is the new distributed operating system of Andrew Tannenbaum,
the inventor of MINIX. A collection of the Amoeba papers is available
via anonymous FTP at many European sites, e.g. iraun1.ira.uka.de
(129.13.10.90) under pub/doc.
--

Harald Fuchs <fuchs@it.uka.de> <fuchs%it.uka.de@relay.cs.net> ...
<fuchs@telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.dbp.de>   *gulp*