WHAT IS AMOEBA?
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I was working in the Amoeba distributed operating system group at CWI. We needed a better way to do system administration than by writing either C programs or Bourne shell scripts, ...
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Amoeba is a general-purpose distributed operating system. It is designed to take a collection of machines and make them act together as a single integrated system.
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In general, users are not aware of the number and location of the processors that run their commands,nor of the number and location of the file servers that store their files.
To the casual user, an Amoeba system looks like a single old-fashioned time-sharing system.
Amoeba is an ongoing research project. It should be thought of as a platform for doing research and development in distributed and parallel systems, languages, protocols and applications.
Although it provides some UNIX emulation, and has a definite UNIX-like flavor (including over 100 UNIX-like utilities), it is NOT a plug-compatible replacement for UNIX.