Xref: utzoo alt.folklore.computers:7971 comp.misc:10920 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fuchs From: fuchs@it.uka.de (Harald Fuchs) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc Subject: Re: What's Amoeba? (Was Re: One True Unix) Message-ID: Date: 15 Dec 90 12:21:51 GMT References: <1Yh2D8#44K9D41f8QQk5qw1fx64Q7TX=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <2776@cirrusl.UUCP> <309@audfax.audiofax.com> <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> Sender: news@ira.uka.de (USENET News System) Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG Lines: 21 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*