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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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1F8LZF…8gsQ Key · twetch
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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.

1F8LZF…8gsQ Key · twetch
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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.

1F8LZF…8gsQ Key · twetch
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To the casual user, an Amoeba system looks like a single old-fashioned time-sharing system.

1F8LZF…8gsQ Key · twetch
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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.

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