Beyond UNIX - A True Distributed System for the 1990s
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Robbert van Renesse, Hans van Staveren, G.J. Sharp · Digital Academic REpository of VU University Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) · 1990
UNIX has been around now for almost 20 years.At the time UNIX began, most departments felt themselves well-endowed indeed if they owned a single PDP-11/45 with 256K memory and a 2.5M RK05 disk.Nowadays a laptop would be embarrassed to have only that.It is our hypothesis that UNIX is no longer the appropriate kind of operating system for the 1990s.In this paper, a new system, Amoeba, will be described, that we believe meets the requirements for distributed computing in the 1990s.