VAMNET: the functional approach to distributed programming

Authors:
Stefan Bosse
Affiliations:
BSSLAB - Independent Research Laboratory, Bremen, Germany
Venue:
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Year:
2006

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Abstract

This article gives a design overview of a new reliable distributed operating system environment, combining the world of functional and distributed programming using a virtual machine approach for hiding system dependencies, offering rapid prototyping facilities. The basic operating system concepts used are derived from the Amoeba operating system by Andrew Tanenbaum and his work group, developed 20 years ago. VAMNET is not only a native operating system. It is a hybrid solution for expanding widely used operating systems like UNIX with a distributed execution environment.