Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!inria!chorus!mgu
From: mgu@chorus.fr (Marc Guillemont)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amoeba 1 of 4
Message-ID: <5459@chorus.fr>
Date: 15 Jun 90 21:49:09 GMT
References: <6922@star.cs.vu.nl>
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From article <6922@star.cs.vu.nl>, by ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum):

> In addition to being distributed, Amoeba has been designed to be very fast.
> Our major customer at the moment is the European Space Agency, which is
> using it as the operating system for a digital system for transmitting
> real time video over a fast LAN.  Right now they have 1 camera on the
> spacecraft, but eventually they want to have 50, and be able to dynamically
> switch channels etc digitally.  As you can well imagine, high performance
> is a major issue here.  That is why Amoeba was chosen over UNIX, Chorus,
> Mach etc.

The European Space Agency is also a customer (not the major one) of Chorus
syste`mes. They need a distributed operating system which can support (among
other things) flexible and efficient dynamic reconfiguration of distributed
Ada programs. That is why CHORUS was chosen over UNIX, Amoeba, Mach, etc. 

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