Newsgroups: comp.archives Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!caen!ox.com!emv From: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) Subject: [folklore...] Re: What's Amoeba? (Was Re: One True Unix) Message-ID: <1990Dec16.185100.1480@ox.com> Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Sender: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG References: <1Yh2D8#44K9D41f8QQk5qw1fx64Q7TX=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <2776@cirrusl.UUCP> <309@audfax.audiofax.com> <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 90 18:51:00 GMT Approved: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Archive-name: os/research/amoeba/1990-12-15 Archive-directory: uunet.uu.net:/networking/amoeba/ [192.48.96.2] Original-posting-by: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) Original-subject: Re: What's Amoeba? (Was Re: One True Unix) Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) ee88sbp@surrey.ac.uk (Sean Broderick Purdy) writes: >In article <309@audfax.audiofax.com> arnold@audiofax.com (Arnold Robbins) writes: >>Ah well. It's time the world moved on to something >>like Amoeba, anyway. >: > ...WRT the various ``UNIX''s. Now I may only be a fledgling sparky > & a read-only-user, but I've never heard of Amoeba. Any info wud be > appreciated. Please cross-post to comp.misc 'cos my site doesn't get > the Alt groups [ :-( ], or via E-mail. (Sorry, I can't reply to > overseas [ex-UK] messages 'cos my site can't afford the stamps.) Amoeba is the new distributed operating system of Andrew Tannenbaum, the inventor of MINIX. A collection of the Amoeba papers is available via anonymous FTP at many European sites, e.g. iraun1.ira.uka.de (129.13.10.90) under pub/doc. -- Harald Fuchs ... *gulp*