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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's Amoeba? (Was Re: One True Unix)
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Date: 14 Dec 90 19:06:41 GMT
References: <1Yh2D8#44K9D41f8QQk5qw1fx64Q7TX=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <2776@cirrusl.UUCP> <309@audfax.audiofax.com> <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK>
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In article <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> 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. ...

I don't know how accessible it is in the UK, but this month's issue of the
"Communications of the ACM" (December 1990, vol. 33, #12) includes a
farily extensive article about Amoeba.  It's the first I've heard of it
and I haven't read the article yet, so the pointer will have to do for
now.

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