Amoeba

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Amoeba is an open source microkernel-based distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit. The aim of the Amoeba project is to build a timesharing system that makes an entire network of computers appear to the user as a single machine. Development at Vrije Universiteit was stopped: the files in the latest version (5.3) were last modified on 12 February 2001. Recent development is carried forward by Dr. Stefan Bosse at BSS Lab.

Amoeba runs on several platforms, including SPARC, i386, i486, 68030, Sun 3/50 and Sun 3/60.

The system uses FLIP as a network protocol.

The Python programming language was originally developed for this platform.^[1]

See also

• Multikernel
• Minix
• Distributed computing
• Operating system
• Andrew S. Tanenbaum

References

1. ^ "Why was Python created in the first place?". Python FAQ. http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general/#why-was-python-created-in-the-first-place. Retrieved 2008-02-11. 

External links

• Amoeba home page
• FSD-Amoeba page at Sourceforge

Recent development by Dr. Stefan Bosse at BSS Lab:

• Overview
• VAM, The Virtual Amoeba Machine: distributed operating system based on Amoeba with virtual machine concepts and functional programming
• AMUNIX, Amoeba on the top of UNIX: Amoeba extension for UNIX-like opertaing systems
• AMCROSS: Amoeba crosscompiling environment for UNIX
• VX-Kernel: the new VX-Amoeba Kernel
• VAMNET, The Virtual Amoeba Machine Network: a new hybrid distribute operating system environment

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