An overview of the Amoeba distributed operating system

  • Authors:
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Sape J. Mullender

  • Affiliations:
  • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1981

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Abstract

As hardware prices continue to drop rapidly, building large computer systems by interconnecting substantial numbers of microcomputers becomes increasingly attractive. Many techniques for interconnecting the hardware, such as Ethernet [Metcalfe and Boggs, 1976], ring nets [Farber and Larson, 1972], packet switching, and shared memory are well understood, but the corresponding software techniques are poorly understood. The design of general purpose distributed operating systems is one of the key research issues for the 1980s.