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*