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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amoeba 1 of 4
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Date: 16 Jun 90 20:41:45 GMT
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In article <5459@chorus.fr> mgu@chorus.fr (Marc Guillemont) writes:
>> 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. 

Fair enough.  Everyone who wants speed should sign up for Amoeba.  Everyone
who wants Ada should sign up for Chorus :-)

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)