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The Amoeba distributed operating system is a microkernel-based research operating system written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum at Vrije Universiteit. The aim of the project was to build a timesharing system that appeared to the user as a single machine even though it was running on multiple machines. Development seems to have stalled: the files in the latest version (5.3) were last modified on the 12th of February 2001.

The Python programming language was originally developed for this platform.

External links

Amoeba home page (http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/)
Amoeba Paper (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~sharma/professional/papers/amoeba/amoeba.html)

Categories: Operating systems | Distributed computing

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