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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: VME Operating System
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Date: 17 Nov 89 23:12:08 GMT
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In article <2204@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:
>We are looking into an operating system which can run in a     
>VME/Motorola/Multi-Processor environment. 
You might look at Amoeba, a distributed system that also can run on a
VME multiprocessor, although it was really designed for disjoint memory
machines.  There was a paper a year ago in the Oct 1988 issue of ACM Operating
Systems Review, as well as papers in each of the last 4 IEEE Distributed
Computing Systems Conferences.  I can also send a recent Amoeba paper
with lots of references to anyone who sends me email requesting it.

Amoeba is now being supported by the Open Software Foundation as a
possible candidate for OSF/2 or OSF/3.  

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)