Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!star.cs.vu.nl!ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: The Upgrade Process Keywords: upgrade version patch 1.5.5 learning ST Message-ID: <6075@star.cs.vu.nl> Date: 21 Mar 90 22:14:15 GMT References: <3450@hp-sdd.hp.com> <1083@targon.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 230 In article <1083@targon.UUCP> gert@targon.UUCP (Gert Kanis) writes: >You indicated that 1.5.x will come available from Prentance Hall, >will there also be a Atari ST 1.5.x from PH? The tentative plan is as follows. P-H will release 5 packages around August 1, 1990 (if all goes well). They will be: 1. PC/XT/AT/386 version on 5.25 inch disks 2. PC/XT/AT/386 version on 3.5 inch disks 3. Atari ST 4. Amiga 5. Macintosh They will all contain the same basic files, but will vary slightly in the sense that there will be no TOSREAD for the Macintosh and no routine to read the IBM clock on the Atari. Other than that sort of stuff, they will be pretty much alike. Most files will be identical, in fact. The 3 68000 versions will use the same binaries so you can compile a program on an Amiga and execute it on an Atari, etc. The 2 IBM versions will differ only in the layout of the disks. Both IBM packages will contain the PC boot disk, the AT boot disk, and the BIOS boot disk, and both will require only 512K (but will use whatever is available). This will eliminate a lot of problems. Tentative price is $140 for first time buyers, with a $40 discount to people who are upgrading from a previous version (and prove it by sending in their old P-H boot diskette). P-H is definitely committed to bringing out 1.5 as a product, but the dates and prices are tentative. Don't call them now since the people who answer the phone know nothing about this and will vigorously deny all of it. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) P.S. With much trepidation, I posted the Amoeba announcement here, but please don't ask me for a copy unless you are with a university or company that has an Ethernet full of Suns or VAXes and is seriously interested. Almost all the papers in the book have been published, so you can read them in the library if you are just a bit curious. The list is given below. .nr PS 12 .nr VS 14 .nr LL 5.5i .LP .tr ~ .de Hd . .bp 0 .ti -0.5i .B . .ce 1 \\$1 .R .br .. .ce 1 .ta 6.5iR \fB TABLE OF CONTENTS\fR .sp 2 .in +0.5i .Hd "INTRODUCTION" .IP \fB\0\02\fR Tanenbaum, A.S. and Mullender, S.J.: "An Introduction to Amoeba" .Hd "OVERVIEW OF AMOEBA" .IP \fB\0\09\fR Mullender, S.J., Rossum, G. van, Tanenbaum, A.S. Renesse, R. van, Staveren, H. van: "Amoeba\(emA Distributed Operating System for the 1990s," (To be published in \fIIEEE Computer Magazine\fR, May 1990). .IP \fB\026\fR Tanenbaum, A.S., Renesse, R. van, Staveren, H. van., Sharp, G.J., Mullender, S.J., Jansen, A.J., and Rossum, G. van: "Experiences with the Amoeba Distributed Operating System," (Accepted for publication in Communications of the ACM). .IP \fB\055\fR Mullender, S.J.: "Distributed Operating Systems: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions" Proc. of the EUTECO 88 Conf., R. Speth (ed.), North-Holland, Vienna, Austria, pp. 57\-66, 1988 .Hd "DESIGN ASPECTS" .IP \fB\063\fR Tanenbaum, A.S., Mullender, S.J., and van Renesse, R.: "Using Sparse Capabilities in a Distributed Operating System" .I "Proc. Sixth International Conf. on Distr. Computer Systems" , IEEE, pp. 558-563, 1986. .IP \fB\069\fR Renesse, R. van, Tanenbaum, A.S., and Wilschut, A: "The Design of a High-Performance File Server" .I "Proc. Ninth Int'l Conf. on Distr. Comp. Systems" , IEEE, pp. 22-27, 1989. .IP \fB\074\fR Rossum, G. van: "AIL \- A Class-Oriented Stub Generator for Amoeba" Proceedings of the Workshop on Experience with Distributed Systems, Springer Verlag, 1989 .Hd "PERFORMANCE" .IP \fB\082\fR Renesse, R. van, Staveren, H. van, and Tanenbaum, A.S.: "Performance of the Amoeba Distributed Operating System," .I "Software\(emPractice and Experience" , vol. 19, pp. 223-234, March 1989. .Hd "AMOEBA OVER WIDE-AREA NETWORKS" .IP \fB\095\fR Renesse, R. van, Tanenbaum, A.S., Staveren, H., and Hall, J.: "Connecting RPC-Based Distributed Systems using Wide-Area Networks," .I "Proc. Seventh Int'l Conf. on Distr. Comp. Systems" , IEEE, pp. 28-34, 1987. .IP \fB102\fR Renesse, R. van, and Staveren: "Wide-Area Communication under Amoeba," Report IR-117, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Dec. 1986. .Hd "MULTIPROCESSOR AMOEBA" .IP \fB113\fR Moergestel, L.J. van, Bal, H.E., Kaashoek, M.F., Renesse, R. van, Sharp, G.J., Staveren, H. van, Tanenbaum, A.S.: "Amoeba on a Multiprocessor," Report IR-206, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Dec. 1989 (accepted for publication in \fIForce File\fR). .Hd "BROADCASTING" .IP \fB124\fR Kaashoek, M.F., Tanenbaum, A.S., Flynn Hummel, S., and Bal, H.E.: "An Efficient Reliable Broadcast Protocol," .I "Operating Systems Review" , vol. 23, pp. 5-19, Oct. 1989. .Hd "DISTRIBUTED PROGRAMMING" .IP \fB138\fR Bal, H.E., and Tanenbaum, A.S.: "Distributed Programming with Shared Data" .I "IEEE Conf. on Computer Languages" , IEEE, pp. 82-91, 1988. .IP \fB148\fR Bal, H.E., Kaashoek, M.F., Tanenbaum, A.S., Jansen, J.: "Replication Techniques for Speeding up Parallel Applications on Distributed Systems," Report IR-202, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Oct. 1989 (submitted for publication). .IP \fB164\fR Bal, H.E., Tanenbaum, A.S., Kaashoek, M.F.: "Orca: A Language for Distributed Programming," Report IR-140, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Dec. 1987 (submitted for publication). .IP \fB172\fR Bal, H.E., Kaashoek, M.F., and Tanenbaum A.S.: "A Distributed Implementation of the Shared Data-object Model," .I "Proc. First USENIX/SERC Workshop on Experiences with Building Distributed and Multiprocessor Systems" , IEEE, pp. 1-19, Oct. .IP \fB190\fR Bal, H.E., Kaashoek, M.F., and Tanenbaum, A.S.: "Experience with Distributed Programming in Orca," .I "Proc. Int'l Conf. on Comp. Languages '90" , IEEE, 1990. .Hd APPLICATIONS .IP \fB215\fR Baalbergen, E.H., Verstoep, K., and Tanenbaum, A.S.: "On the Design of the Amoeba Configuration Manager," .I "ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes" , vol. 17, Nov. 1989 (\fIProc. 2nd Int'l Workshop on Software Configuration Management\fR) ACM, 1989. .IP \fB223\fR Baalbergen, E.H.: "Parallel and Distributed Compilations in Loosely-Coupled Systems: A Case Study," .I "Proc. Workshop on Large Grain Parallelism" , 1986. .IP \fB227\fR Baalbergen, E.H.: "Design and Implementation of Parallel Make," .I " Computing Systems" vol. 1, pp. 135-158, Spring 1988. .IP \fB242\fR Bal, H.E., Renesse, R. van, and Tanenbaum, A.S.: "Implementing Distributed Algorithms using Remote Procedure Call," .I "Proc. National Computer Conference" , AFIPS, pp. 499-505, 1987.\fR .Hd THEORY .IP \fB249\fR Mullender, S.J. and Vit\o'\'a'nyi, P.M.B.: "Distributed Match-Making", Algorithmica, vol. 3, pp. 367\-391, 1988 .IP \fB273\fR Renesse, R. van, and Tanenbaum, A.S.: "Voting with Ghosts," .I "Proc. Eighth International Conf. on Distr. Computer Systems" , IEEE, pp. 456-461, 1988. .bp 0 .ce 1 .B .nr PS 24 .nr VS 26 .LP THE AMOEBA DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM