Amoeba was an experimental, microkernel-based distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit. The aim of the Amoeba project was to build a timesharing system that made an entire network of computers appear to the user as a single machine. Development seems to have stalled: the files in the latest version (5.3) were last modified on the 12 February 2001.
Amoeba ran on several platforms, including i386, Sun-3 and SPARC.
The Python programming language was originally developed as the scripting language for Amoeba.
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Amoeba - Powerful free, open source, microkernel-based system that turns a collection of workstations or single-board computers into a transparent distributed system. Used in academia, industry, and government for many years. Runs on many platforms.
Amoeba Distributed Operating System - Technical paper, describes Amoeba, with special focus on its object-based design and use of capabilities, and its innovative Wide Area Network communication scheme; ends by comparing Amoeba and the Sprite distributed OS.
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