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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.
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Amoeba WWW Home Page Information available at this moment: What is Amoeba including papers and documentation) Papers on Amoeba How to get Amoeba The Orca parallel programming language Latest News Amoeba 5.3 is now freely available! Just follow the How to get Amoeba link...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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The Amoeba Distributed Operating System This paper attempts to describe a distributed operating system called Amoeba, with special reference to its object-based design and use of capabilities. We also study its innovative Wide Area Network communication scheme. The paper ends with a comparision between Amoeba...Part of the Computer Science Bibliographies: search, browsing, statistics.
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