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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What's Amoeba? (Was Re: One True Unix)
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.132032.25493@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 15 Dec 90 13:20:32 GMT
References: <1Yh2D8#44K9D41f8QQk5qw1fx64Q7TX=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> <2776@cirrusl.UUCP> <309@audfax.audiofax.com> <1990Dec11.223529.21782@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> <21871@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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In article <21871@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
>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.

If you look in the July UKUUG Proceedings, theres a fairly extensive paper
on Ameoba. Contact the UKUUG for details.

Dylan.
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