ee88sbp@surrey.ac.uk (Sean Broderick Purdy) (12/12/90)
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.) TNX in advance, luv SEAN xxx ee88sbp@ee.surrey.ac.uk } Subject to change without notice. ELE838@SYSI.SURREY.AC.UK } P.S. Loved the Jargon File - made a hard-copy on a laser printer (or should that read ``I LASED a copy'') for perusal by myself & friends. P.P.S. Does anybody use ALGOL 68 in the `real' world? I ask merely for information... 'cos we get taught it as part of our undergrad course. (BEng/MEng Elec & Elec Eng, & BEng/MEng Information Systems Eng, except I think the ISE guys get to do Pascal & other stuff as well. And this year's First Year intake now gets taught Pascal instead. (...well, it was that or Modula-2...)). P.P.P.S. Also our UNIX (well, Sun-OS) accounts are being transferred from some SUN machines in the ElecEng Dept to a HP machine running HP-UX. Now I read some derogatory comments in the aforementioned Jargon File about HP-UX (ie HP-SUX). Is it really that bad? OK, time to go. Comments & answers much appreciated, even if I can't reach you personally to say thanks. SEAN. ********************************** Of course these are my personal **** HELP, I'VE GOT EXAMS!!!! **** opinions. I mean, who gives a ********************************** XXXX about anybody else's??!!!
hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) (12/15/90)
In article <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> 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. ... I don't know how accessible it is in the UK, but this month's issue of the "Communications of the ACM" (December 1990, vol. 33, #12) includes a farily extensive article about Amoeba. It's the first I've heard of it and I haven't read the article yet, so the pointer will have to do for now. -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, M.A., CDP, aka: hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Head Robot Wrangler at Citicorp(+)TTI Illegitimis non 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 450-9111, x2483 Carborundum Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun | philabs | psivax}!ttidca!hollombe
fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) (12/15/90)
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*
dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) (12/15/90)
In article <21871@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes: >In article <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> 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. ... > >I don't know how accessible it is in the UK, but this month's issue of the >"Communications of the ACM" (December 1990, vol. 33, #12) includes a >farily extensive article about Amoeba. It's the first I've heard of it >and I haven't read the article yet, so the pointer will have to do for >now. If you look in the July UKUUG Proceedings, theres a fairly extensive paper on Ameoba. Contact the UKUUG for details. Dylan. -- Matthew J Farwell | Email: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group, PO Box 360,| ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan Harrow HA1 4LQ England | CONNECT - Usenet Access in the UK!! Phone: +44 81-863-1191 | Sun? Don't they make coffee machines?
src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) (12/19/90)
fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) writes: >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. as far as i remember there was a big (>10 articles) source posting in comp.os.minix some time ago?! -- Heiko Blume <-+-> src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de <-+-> (+49 30) 691 88 93 public source archive [HST V.42bis]: scuzzy Any ACU,f 38400 6919520 gin:--gin: nuucp sword: nuucp uucp scuzzy!/src/README /your/home